Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

M. Scott Peck

Integrity is never painless.

Luther Burbank

The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.

Lupita Nyong'o

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

John Boyle O'Reilly

For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

Matt Taibbi

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Maxwell Maltz

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Max Weber

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max de Pree

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

Max de Pree

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

Matthew Davis

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

Kirk Cameron

For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.

Kenneth Tynan

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Those rules are important in monitoring the integrity of the election.

Jim DeMint

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Paul Anka

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Paul Auster

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Pam Brown

Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Joseph Stalin

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

Patrick Ness

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Lily Cole

I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

Nawal El Saadawi

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

Neal A. Maxwell

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.