Quotes about Integrity

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.

So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

It is the complete system of divine truth to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken with impunity. Every attempt to disguise or soften any branch of this truth in order to accommodate it to the prevailing taste around us either to avoid the displeasure or court the favor of our fellow mortals must be an affront to the majesty of God and an act of treachery to men.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".