Top 1200 Moral Integrity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity.

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

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

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Where I come from, real men stand up and face their opponents with honor and integrity.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

To make any endeavor truly successful, integrity, inspiration, and insight are integral.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

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

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.