Quotes about Integrity
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
— Ellen White
While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.
— Ellen White
And Balaam answered and said, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more."
— Ellen White
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
— Ellen White
As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.
— Ellen White
Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible—a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.
— Ellen White
But they were told that their nature had become depraved by sin; they had lessened their strength to resist evil and had opened the way for Satan to gain more ready access to them. In their innocence they had yielded to temptation; and now, in a state of conscious guilt, they would have less power to maintain their integrity.
— Ellen White
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
— Ellen Glasgow
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
You should never take more than you give.
— Elton John
Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.
— Barbara Brown Taylor