"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
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"Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade."
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"Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness."
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"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
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"The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall."
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"Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character."
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"In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first."
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"What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality."
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"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
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"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other."
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"Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."
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"Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast."
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"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."
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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization."
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"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity."
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"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."
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"The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity."
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
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