Integrity Quotes - Page 25

• The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Heart, Credit, Conscious

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner (2008). “The School for Scandal and Other Plays”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

  Abraham Polonsky

  Thinking, Honor

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• Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Hard Work, Opposites, Giving

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• Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

  John Woolman

  Mind, Use, Body

  John Woolman (1806). “The Works of John Woolman: In Two Parts”, p.344

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• Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

  Richard J. Foster

  Live Life, Reality, Simplicity

  Richard J. Foster (2010). “Freedom of Simplicity: Revised Edition: Finding Harmony in a Complex World”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

  Sam Storms

  Reason, Burden, Should

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• Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

  Jack McDevitt

  Loss, Cost, Sometimes

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

  Sam Storms

  Mean, Grace, Doe

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• Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

  Timothy Findley

  Writing, Hay, Wonder

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

  Dee Hock

  Motivation, Understanding, Lasts

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• You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Honesty, America, People

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• I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.

  Alex Lifeson

  Beautiful, Smart, Guitar

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• The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Support

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  John Gokongwei

  Dream, Business, Believe

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• It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

  Adrienne Rich

  Commitment, Issues, Rights

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• I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

  William Howard Taft

  Independent, Creating, Political

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• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lonely, Heart, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beautiful, Matter, Genius

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• Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Fancy, Publicity, Moments

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• We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Plans

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• We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Ethics, Plans, Follow Up

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• I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.

  Neko Case

  People, Guy, Kind

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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Sports, Play, Justice

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Inspiration, Skins, Quality

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

  Jamie Bell

  Independent, Soul, Want

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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