Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

J. K. Rowling

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

H. L. Mencken

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts...

J. Reuben Clark

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

J. Reuben Clark

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Hunter S. Thompson

Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Howard Schultz

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

Jacques Barzun

We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct magnanimity, in short does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

Isaac Barrow

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

Ellen Bass

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Ella Baker

I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.

By opposing Measure A, we are maintaining the integrity of the Napa Valley Ag Preserve. Any measure that threatens this should be opposed by the NVV.

Neale Donald Walsch

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

Mike Leigh

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

Mike Leigh

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

Margaret Walker

I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our integrity determines what we really are.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Jordin Sparks

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

Jordan Spieth

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

Kelli White

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

John C. Maxwell

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

John C. Maxwell

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Epictetus

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Emily Giffin

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

Ellis Peters

Integrity expects integrity.