Integrity
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- An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
- An orator's life is more convincing than his eloquence.
- Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.
- Any belonging that asks us to betray ourselves is not true belonging.
- Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
- Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.
- As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
- Ask yourself: If other people knew I was doing this, would I be embarrassed or ashamed? If so, it’s probably not a good thing to be doing.
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
- Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
- Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.
- Authenticity is when you say and do the things you actually believe.
- Be absolutely square with your men, and never call one down unless he has it coming to him.
- Be honest with yourself, whatever the temptation; say nothing to others that you do not think, and play no tricks with your own mind. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in this world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
- Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Be prepared and be honest.
- Be someone you are proud of.
- Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
- Be true to your own highest convictions.
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
- Be wondrous wary of your comportment. Get a good name, and be very tender of it afterward; for 'tis like the Venice-glass, quickly cracked, never to be mended, though patched it might be.
- Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
- Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
- Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
- Better a blush in the face than a blot in the heart.
- Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.
- Character is built when no one is looking.
- Character is defined by your ethics, not just by your work ethic.
- Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
- Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.
- Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say.
- Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
- Dare to be true. Nothing can need a ly: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
- Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
- Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.