Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Ayn Rand

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Edward Abbey

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Atul Gawande

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

Aristotle

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Aristotle

The intention makes the crime.

Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Elena Kagan

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

Deepak Chopra

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

David Bowie

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Abdul Kalam

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

Abdul Kalam

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Abdul Kalam

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Samuel Butler

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

George Foreman

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

Alexander Hamilton

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

Alexander Hamilton

In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Abraham Polonsky

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Ani Difranco

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

Allan Houston

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

Ann Landers

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

Andy Garcia

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

Alan Cohen

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Abraham Lincoln

Honor is better than honors.

Abraham Lincoln

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Aleister Crowley

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.