Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine L'Engle

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Louisa May Alcott

To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on

Louisa May Alcott

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

John Ford

Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!

John F. Kennedy

Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.

Jonathan Franzen

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Jonathan Franzen

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Jonah Hill

When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.

Jonah Goldberg

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

Ovid

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

P. C. Cast

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

Pauline Marois

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

Paul Wellstone

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Mary Daly

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

Pope Francis

Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.

Paulo Coelho

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

Phil Morris

Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.

Peter Sotos

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Polybius

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Pope John XXIII

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Nathaniel Branden

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

Nathaniel Branden

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Nathaniel Branden

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

Nathaniel Branden

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Nathaniel Branden

Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Jim Palmer

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

George Mason

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Elizabeth Goudge

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

Joel Salatin

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

Joe Biden

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.