Quotes about Integrity

Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.

One has to feel strong revulsion toward the wrong feeling one now has or is likely to have and at the same time strong attraction to good feeling that one does not now feel.

One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

We settle back into de facto alienation of our religion from Jesus as a friend and teacher, and from our moment-to-moment existence as a holy calling or appointment with God. Some will substitute ritual behavior for divine vitality and personal integrity; others may be content with an isolated string of "experiences" rather than transformation of character.

True enemies are better than false friends.

You don't lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you're better for it.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.