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“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act accordingly.”

Author:Otto Graham

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

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Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

“The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.”

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Author:Jamie Bell

“They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.”

Done Shows Integrity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate”

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Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

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

Virtue Information Integrity Independent Patterns Mediums

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Tension is the great integrity.”

Integrity Tension Spectacular

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”

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Author:Ovid

“There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.”

Moving Wind Integrity Mountain Greed Lust True Nature Rubbish Lust And Greed

Book:Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi

Source: Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi

“A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.”

People Government Citizens Integrity Benefits Loyalty Operations Damage Distrust Secrecy Fervor

Author:Russell B. Long

“What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.”

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Author:Bernie Brillstein

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.”

Thinking Want Art Together Desire Artist Forever Integrity Fame Live Forever Intangible Being Famous Desire To Live

Author:Damien Hirst

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

Humans Has Beens Reason Knowledge Learning Integrity Shapes Findings Conscience Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”

Wells May Evil Interest Principles Watches Virtue Society Produce Integrity Aim Institutions Corruption Tendencies Agents Agency Productive Governing

Author:James F. Cooper

“Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.”

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Author:Saxby Chambliss

“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.”

People Knows Believe Self Hard Government Community Decision Leader Hard Work Integrity Gains Careful Core Planning Partisanship Careful Planning

Author:Linda Lingle

“The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.”

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Author:Stephen Moyer

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

“I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Persons Today Vision Humility Integrity Ego Humble Bless Ministry Dependence Overrated Power Of God

Author:Rick Warren

“Your integrity is more precious than your life.”

Ability Integrity

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.”

Giving Character Passion Integrity Settling Strength Of Character

Author:Adyashanti

“With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.”

Winning Integrity Critical Innocent Butterfly Composition Abstraction Open Minded Charmed Like A Butterfly

Author:Robert Genn

“The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.”

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Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service

“Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.”

Source: Osler's

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.”

People Knows Waiting Willing Integrity Prove Willing To Wait

Author:Ann Landers

“I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.”

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Author:Sam Rayburn

“I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Integrity eclipses image.”

Integrity Mma Eclipse

Author:Michael Chandler

“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.”

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Book:Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

“To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.”

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Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.”

Giving Joy Fall Courses Audience Integrity Give Me Innocence Sabotage Great Joy

Author:Selima Hill

“The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.”

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Author:Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee