Quotes on Integrity

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Tension is the great integrity.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.