Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret J. Wheatley

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.

Michael Faraday

Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.

Melissa Marr

You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

Michael Stipe

When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.

Michael Hutchence

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile

Matt Taibbi

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Maxwell Maltz

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Max Weber

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max de Pree

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

Max de Pree

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

Matthew Davis

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

Pat McCrory

Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor.

Plato

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Plato

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

Lauryn Hill

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

John Travolta

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

John Stuart Mill

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Marvin Williams

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

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.