Top 1200 Moral Integrity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Learn to work with the integrity of your vision, not for how much money you can make and the big house.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

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.

Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories in a communist society: honest men and bad men. The "honest" ones resist compromising or collaborating with the regime, while the "bad" are the persecutors and collaborators. You can choose to be on one side or the other, but there is nothing in between. In a normal society, other factors can define who you are. You can be a good worker, sociable, tough, generous, tolerant, collaborative, friendly.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

I'd like my man to be very simple yet highly ambitious, one who chooses to live with real integrity and humanity.

Looking back, when I was fourteen, I aspired to... be the best believer, husband, father, businessman, and man of integrity that I can be.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

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

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Let's not betray cinema with marketing inside the film. If it's done outside, then it's ok. That is essential to integrity.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.