Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Jamie Bell

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Janet Reno

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Brendan Gleeson

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Debra Wilson

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

We think it's an appropriate step to take to protect the integrity of our products and the safety of our patients here in the U.S. and Canada.

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

D. A. Carson

...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.

Thomas Jefferson

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

Thomas Jefferson

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Tim Gunn

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Ron Kaufman

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

Russ Feingold

The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

Thomas Malthus

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

Thomas Merton

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

Tony Dungy

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

Tony Dungy

Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.

Tony Dungy

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Tony Dungy

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

Tommy Lee Jones

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Ronald Reagan

I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

Rumi

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Susan Cain

In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.

Sonny Perdue

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.