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Integrity Quotes
"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
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"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act."
105
"We have now recently launched the national integrity plan."
104
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
101
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
86
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
57
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
57
"If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut."
54
"Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children."
52
"I shall not waste any of our brief time together flattering your ego, as others have done before, with all this nonsense about skills and talents that do not help, or worse, that you do not actually possess."
48
"CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy."
47
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
46
"Also, I'm not going to bedevastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say thehonest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- she says,but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks toofast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, itnever becomes true."
46
"Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep."
44
"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."
43
"Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts."
40
"Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth."
40
"It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out."
39
"I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee."
39
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
39
"To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above."
39
"There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be."
39
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
38
"If you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth."
37
"Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn't rely on it, because it's not guaranteed and it's not permanent and it's not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing-the characters, the story, the words, the themes-and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don't warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don't fall apart."
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"Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken."
37
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
36
"There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity."
35
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
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"If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say."
34
"Commitment is an act, not a word."
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