A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quali….
Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selfle….
The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it..
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig ….
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity..
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength..
Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Wh….
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right..
To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on.
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappo….
What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it….
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers..
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy..
I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long a….
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else..
Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is beca….
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow..
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years….
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong..
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward….
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners ….