Quotes about Integrity
Never would I switch to Bayern.
— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
— Abhijit Banerjee
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.
— Rene Gutteridge
Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.
— Richard Baxter
Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.
— Richard Baxter
It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.
— Richard Baxter
An ingenious man can hardly stay with a people against their will; and a sincere man can more hardly, for any interest of his own, remain in a place where he is likely to be unprofitable, to hinder the good which they might receive from another man, who hath the advantage of a greater interest in their estimation and affection.
— Richard Baxter
Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.
— Richard Baxter
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
— Richard Baxter