Quotes about Integrity

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.