Quotes about Integrity
Have you always liked being Howard Roark?" Roark smiled. The smile was amused, astonished, involuntarily contemptuous.
— Ayn Rand
Be conscious of God and speak always the truth
— Barack Obama
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
— Barack Obama
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
— Barack Obama
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy, but when it is hard.
— Barack Obama
"There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected."
— Barack Obama
I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.
— Barack Obama
If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?
— Barack Obama
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
— Barbara Kingsolver