Quotes about Integrity

freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

The danger never lies in a technique in itself, but solely in the spirit in which the technique is applied and handled.

From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.

Loveliness and stillness clasped hands in the bedroom, and among the shrouded jugs and sheeted chairs even the prying of the wind, and the soft nose of the clammy sea airs, rubbing, snuffling, iterating, and reiterating their questions — "Will you fade? Will you perish?" — scarcely disturbed the peace, the indifference, the air of pure integrity, as if the question they asked scarcely needed that they should answer: we remain.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.