Quotes about Integrity

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

One of his [Rebbe Mikhal of Zlotchev] prayers: I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth.

There is "response" in responsibility.

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.