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"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."
"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present."
"The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity."
"When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness."
"The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization."
"Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible."
"Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you."
"The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner."
"Integrity has no need of rules."
"There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked."
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy."
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
"Integrity needs no rules."
"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."
"No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to."
"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be."
"The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions."
