Quotes about Integrity

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn't change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath.

Michael had been something new to him, too. He was one of those rare men who lived what he believed, not once in a while, but every hour of every day, even when the going wasn't easy. As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A man like Noah. A man like the shepherd-king, David. A man after God's own heart.

Rumors aren't worth the sand we walk on.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known...

I have affirmed one truth I will carry with me for all time: Apart from the dear Lord Himself, my children and my integrity are my greatest treasure, and having them safe with me now, I am the richest man in the world.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.