There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises... .If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,...
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
You won't reach anywhere... if you lie!
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent to please the infidels.
And when you love people, you hate the fact that they're being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the...
Jamie was like no one else he had ever met. She had ethics; she had moral integrity. She was clearly not corruptible, at least not for money - - that test was over.
Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put...
Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.
To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.
Your words are wise, but are your actions too?
A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.
Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other...
It's not pretty, but it's veracious.
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the halfway, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
Doña Beatriz was too proud to lie.
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do - and everyone else.
They say, Disgrace is not to fall but to lie. They
No amount of titles, degrees, trades, designations, awards, licenses, or any other credential can substitute for basic integrity when we talk about the power to influence others.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
True allegiance is only given willingly.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
"I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said Sherlock Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MPs, but in truth most are...
I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence.
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....