Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sununu

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

John Stuart Mill

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Mark Steyn

Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.

Marilyn Ferguson

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

Peter Drucker

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Peter Drucker

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

Penn Jillette

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

Sheryl Crow

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or was this nothing more than a fraternity prank? Please tell me that you didn’t just ruin my integrity to get some kind of drinking points. This is something I’ve been working for since before you were born. How dare you make a mockery of me. I hope to God that one day someone degrades you like this so that you’ll know, just once in your spoiled pompous life, what humiliation feels like! (Tory)

Nick Vujicic

There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

Nas

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,

Mignon McLaughlin

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Mignon McLaughlin

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

John Woolman

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

John Wooden

We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

John Wooden

Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

Marianne Williamson

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Marianne Williamson

The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

Mario Cuomo

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Marvin Williams

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

Michael Josephson

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

Michael Josephson

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

Michael Josephson

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

Michael Josephson

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Michael Josephson

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

Martha Stewart

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Michael D. Higgins

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael Crichton

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Michael Crichton

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Michel de Montaigne

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.