Famous Quotes & Sayings

Crystal Gayle

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

Cullen Hightower

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

Danny Masterson

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Daniel Defoe

A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

David Foster Wallace

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

David Chipperfield

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Douglas Conant

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Doris Lessing

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Donald Hall

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Chuck Grassley

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Chuck Grassley

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

Chuck Grassley

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Ansel Adams

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

Andrew Carnegie

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Amos Oz

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Amy Grant

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

Anna Howard Shaw

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

Anna Howard Shaw

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Andrew Cuomo

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

Alija Izetbegovic

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

Alice Waters

People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.

Allen West

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

Allen West

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Alex Jones

In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

Debbie Ford

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

E. M. Forster

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.