Quotes about Integrity

The only Christian work is good work well done.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

A hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.