Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Brightman

People have said there is an integrity about me, and I think there is. I don't try to follow a trend. I have my own little path.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

William Ellery Channing

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

William Faulkner

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Ronald Reagan

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Roger Ailes

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

Roger Ailes

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

Robert E. Lee

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Richard Paul Evans

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science.

Richard P. Feynman

So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

Richard Wright

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Robert McKee

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Red Auerbach

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

Rebel Wilson

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

Richard Carmona

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Trevor Nunn

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

Sandra Day O'Connor

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

Sandra Bullock

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Sandra Bullock

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Sarah McLachlan

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Sarah MacLean

Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

Samuel Johnson

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Samuel Johnson

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Samuel Johnson

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

Virgil

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

William Howard Taft

I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

Wilhelm Reich

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

Vladimir Putin

How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not?

Winona LaDuke

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

William Safire

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.