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"There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive."
"Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values."
"Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered."
"The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity ."
"A great man is always willing to be little."
"Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"
"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
"Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity."
"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
"It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary."
"Honor is better than honors."
"Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth"
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
"The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that."
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
"Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions."
"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
"Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end."
