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“Intergrity is not only teh way one thinks but even moer the way one acts.”

Thinking Way Integrity

Author:Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

“Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.”

Believe Long Reality Running Lost I Believe Integrity I Believe In Denied Long Runs Concealed

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.”

Ifs Want Life Happiness Lying Successful Integrity Being Successful Divides Never Lie

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others.”

“A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.”

Ifs Men Depends Integrity

Author:John Banville

“In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.”

People Said Home Culture Animal Integrity Shells Snail Valiant

Author:Susan Cain

“Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word.”

Ifs Way Suffering Asks Integrity Impeccable

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.”

Knows Believe Self Helping Problem Found Belief Acting Courage Integrity Meetings Self Respect Problem Solving Decency

Book:Selected letters of William Faulkner

Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner

“If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.”

Ifs Men Looks Earth Faces One Thing Mankind He Man Integrity Devil Brave Dare Admire Brave Man

Author:James A. Garfield

“Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.”

Men Mean Ends Turns Courage Path Integrity Goodness Broads Honour Justified Plausible Pretence

Book:Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times

Source: Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times

“Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.”

Honesty Integrity Telling The Truth

Author:Ken Blanchard

“As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.”

“To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.”

Wells Levels Existence Doors Perspective Integrity Gains Deeper Well Being Contemplation New Perspective

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true.”

Feels Trying Long Enough Body Leader Type Fool Integrity Intelligent Democratic Rings Superiors Veneer

Author:T. Coleman du Pont

“His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”

“Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.”

Light Discipline Integrity Conscience Shining

Book:Reach Up for the Light

Source: Reach Up for the Light

“Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.”

Changed Circumstances Integrity Commitment Wholeness

Author:David Jeremiah

“May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.”

Needs May Humanity Causes Sound Justice Leader Subjects Greatness Particular Integrity Ego Commitment Stress Intelligent Courageous Dedicated Publicity

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.”

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.”

Integrity Dignity Tragedy Betrayal Compromise Betray Trading Betrayed Betrayed Love Love Betrayal Love And Betrayal

Author:Tom Cochrane

“It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.”

Age Jesus Christianity Son Integrity Mass Profound Merit Godly Risen Founding Fathers Religious Eminence Nazareth Testimonial

Author:John Quincy Adams

“I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.”

People Want Art Done Stories Might Artist Lost Speak Imagination Possibility Integrity Harm Awakening Stuck Genuine Symbols Cynical Sowing

Author:Graham Cray

“If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.”

Ifs Believe Mean Football Integrity Nfl Best Football

Author:Jim Brown

“Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.”

People World Values Culture Courses Jesus Waiting Justice Compassion Vision Gone Integrity News Contrary Kingdoms New World Good News Godly

Book:Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)

“It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.”

“In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.”

Firsts Believe Important I Believe Leadership Leader Integrity Protect Office Degrees Fundamentals Obligation Reputation Competent Business Leadership Public Office

Author:Peter Cosgrove

“We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.”

Heart May Different Sometimes Challenges Leadership Simple Known Our Lives Integrity Tests Profound Core Reputation Fragile

Author:Peter Cosgrove

“You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.”

Ifs Needs Feels Important Leadership Business Principles Integrity Ethics Economics Compromise Public Life Ethics And Integrity

Author:Graeme Samuel

“People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.”

People Failure Integrity Dare Excuse Consistency Counting Wannabes Band Members

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”

Light Action Joy Mother Nature Silence Integrity Flow All Things Roots Unity Invisible Mysterious Purity Visible Wholeness Unseen Sweetness Fountain Gentleness Meek

Author:Thomas Merton

“Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.”

May Choices Morality Integrity Ethics Moral Integrity

Author:Leon Blum

“It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.”

Seems Literature Integrity Ethics Everyday Managers Behave Exception Prescriptions Ethics And Integrity

Author:Steve Kerr

“Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.”

World States Character Stage Integrity Degrees Majors Ethics Tasks Traits Sophisticated Integrating Processing Stages Of Life Developmental Character Trait

Author:David A. Kolb

“Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.”

Moral Virtue Integrity Ethics Negative Staples

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.”

Firsts Integrity Ethics Thirds Thee Fourth Purses

Author:Matthew Henry

“We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.”

Virtue Honest Regret Integrity Ethics Vices

Author:Holbrook Jackson

“If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.”

Ifs Would Be Integrity Ethics Hills Judged Our Thoughts Outlaw

Book:Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm

Source: Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm

“It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.”

Integrity Ethics Be Good Respectable

Author:Edith Sitwell

“Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.”

Past Names Integrity Behavior Ethics Essence Labels Our Past Printed

Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

People Virtue Integrity Ethics Faults Avoiding Repent

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.”

Seems Today Accepting Integrity Ethics Accepted

Author:Pablo Casals

“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.”

Ifs Mean Virtue Achieve Integrity Ethics Vices Avoidance

Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.”

Stills Moral Integrity Ethics Offensive

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.”

World Littles Self Character Deals Integrity Ethics Independence Genuine Self Will

Book:Spiritual conferences

Source: Spiritual conferences

“If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.”

People Ifs Would Be Integrity Ethics Oneself Tolerance Permit Tolerate Unbearable Dealing With It Unbearable Things

Author:Georges Courteline

“I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.”

Littles Done Character Action House Common Secret Cry Integrity Ethics Chamber

Book:The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

“In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.”

Men Evil Sleep Integrity Ethics Good Man

Author:Mary Renault

“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”

Stills Two Remember Evil Integrity Ethics Hatred You Choose Good Against Evil Lesser Evil Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils 12 Step Recovery

Author:Max Lerner

“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”

Men Littles Effort Moral Opinion Practice Needed Integrity Highest Ethics Wicked Good Man Boldness Discernment Moral Courage Rebuke Wicked Man

Book:Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color

Source: Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color

“Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.”

Politics Results Views Moral Opinion Doubt Information Circumstances Integrity No Doubt

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson