Integrity Quotes - Page 20

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven principles of long-term investing and of trusteeship that demands integrity in serving our clients.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Integrity needs no rules.

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow charitably bestowing upon God. Paying tithing is discharging a debt.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.