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Integrity Quotes
"You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own."
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"Always tell what you feel. Do what you think..."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
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"Do what is right, not what is important."
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"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
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"A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding."
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"Not all generous hearts are gullible enough to be screwed by cold, calculating, business propaganda. A person who has an eye for what is right and the truth will immediately spot the cunning ways of a selfish "user and hungry grabber" who took initiative to grab the originality from other people they tried to profile, fake befriended and extracted favours."
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"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!"
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"If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone."
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"Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else."
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"You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose."
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"Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not."
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"I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right."
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"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
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"Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be."
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"Think honestly. Think humbly. Think honorably. Think happily."
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"It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character."
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"Tell me you're truth. I'm listening."
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them."
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"On those who try to make me their guru or master, my approach is to start destroying that from the first moment we meet. It probably seems naive and idealistic, but I rely on basic, old-fashioned qualities in keeping my interactions clean: integrity, chivalry, honesty. In my experience, it's not that difficult to eliminate the guru paradigm and stereotype, if one really wants to. Finally, it comes down to simply not accepting a role or the associated temptations offered."
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
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"A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? "I am Pure Soul, it is that Self."
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"Emotionally intelligent people hold themselves accountable for their behavior, failures, decisions, and successes."
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"What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth."
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"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
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"Too much honesty makes you sound insincere."
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"Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it."
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"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
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"Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them...but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them-even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too. "No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces-at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi."
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"I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs."
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