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Integrity Quotes


"If you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth."


"I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee."



"However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal."


"In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules."


"You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously."


"Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No!"


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


"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."


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


"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."


"Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc."


"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."


"There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity."


"It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption."


"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."


"Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process."


"It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out."


"Do what is right, not what is important."


"Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up."


"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."


"A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding."


"Practically every mental health care practitioner, from the most erudite psychoanalysts to untrained self-help gurus, tell us that it is infinitely more fulfilling and we are all saner if we tell the truth, yet most of us are not rushing to stand up and be counted among the truth tellers. Indeed, as someone committed to being honest in daily life I experience the constant drag of being seen as a 'freak,' for telling the truth, even when I speak truthfully about simple matters. If a friend gives me a gift and asks me to tell him or her whether I like it, I will respond honestly and judiciously; that is to say I will speak the truth in a positive, caring manner. Yet even in this situation, the person who asks for honesty will often express annoyance when given a truthful response."


"And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others. The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison."


"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."


"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."


"Don't fall for someone's words, fall for someone's deeds."


"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."


"The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is "a lie'."


"Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold."


"We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word."
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