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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

  Douglas Adams

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

  Erich Fromm

  Soulmate, Love You, Love Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

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• You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

  Robert Breault

  Progress, Code Of Ethics, Ethics

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• Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

  Arthur Freed

  Character, Hypocrisy, Trying

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Moving, Positivity

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Death, Children

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Divorce, Voice

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• I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Morality, Ethics

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.239, Algora Publishing

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• It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Political, Independence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• Good values are easier caught than taught.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Taught, Easier

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• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

  Joseph Conrad

  Adventure, Men, Artist

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.302, e-artnow

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• If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Desire, Together

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

  Charles Bartlett Johnson

  Writing, Refuge

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• Calamity is the test of integrity.

  Samuel Richardson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.86

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• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Success, Summer, Months

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• The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

  Marcus Garvey

  Selfish, Common, Eternity

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Happiness, Loyalty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin

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• You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Honor, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1154, e-artnow

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• If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

  Frank Perdue

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

  Ralph Marston

  Commitment, Achievement, Excellence

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• The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Important, Strive, Achieve

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• In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Moving, Expression, Process

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• What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Luxury, Soul

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.

  Jaime Escalante

  Self, Want, Opinion

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• A promise must never be broken.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Trust, Commitment, Broken

  Alexander Hamilton (1903). “Works”

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