Integrity
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- Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- Salute truth, even if she comes in rags. Hate error though she comes clothed in tradition, riding with a coach.
- Saying “yes” or “maybe” when we mean no, cheapens our word, diminishes our sense of self-respect, and compromises our integrity.
- Search for a rock, a principle, and having found it cling to it; get it under your feet and stand erect upon it, until at last, immovably fixed upon it, you succeed in defying the fury of the waves and storms of selfishness.James AllenSourced
- Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
- Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
- Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
- Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character.
- Sincerity is like travelling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
- Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
- Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
- Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
- So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are.
- So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak to God, as if men heard you.
- Some men have a Sunday soul, which they screw on in due time, and take off again every Monday morning.
- Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
- Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.
- Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong.
- Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
- Tell the truth about what you are feeling. Tell the truth about what you are thinking. Tell the truth about what you are doing and why.
- Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
- The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
- The essence of a lie is in deception, not in words.
- The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
- The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
- The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course, debt following debt, as lie follows lie.
- The first step to greatness is to be honest.
- The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," — it is greatness itself.Christian Nestell BoveeSourced
- The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
- The less you need the approval of others, the easier it is to do what’s right over what’s easy.
- The man who gets the loyalty of his employees is the man who has, first of all, a reputation for fair dealing.
- The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.