Quotes about Integrity
The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
— JRR Tolkien
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
— JRR Tolkien
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use
— Dale Carnegie
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— Dale Carnegie
There is a way to speak the truth in love, treating people with respect. But if being liked is the goal of the preacher, the speech is more likely to be grandstanding than world-shaking.
— Dan Boone
Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.
— Dan Boone
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
— St. Jerome
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
— John Henry Newman
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
— Confucius