"It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other."
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"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
"If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good."
"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear."
"Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome."
"In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go."
"Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them."
"When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake."
"This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity."
"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."
"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
"What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed."
"With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best."
"...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
"Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."
"Say only what you mean."
"It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right."