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Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor an...

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My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is s...

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We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or ...

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But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...

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Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrit...

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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, of...

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Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

My mom used to say, ‘Life isn’t fair,’“ said Shadow.“Of course she did,” said Wednesday. “It’s one o...

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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or n...

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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cauti...

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Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, ...

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Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

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A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparen...

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May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children...

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athlet...

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I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

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Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is j...

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Robert GravesConversations with Robert Graves

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...

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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do...

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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us ...

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

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

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Samuel JohnsonThe History of Rasselas

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend my...

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I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is eve...

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What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water acce...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to mainta...

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But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and ther...

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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fi...

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A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this oc...

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...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the sam...

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...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by do...

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...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostilit...

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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, trea...

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No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we reg...

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Susan SontagReborn: Journals and Notebooks

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstin...

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T. H. WhiteThe Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

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Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...

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Terry BrooksStar Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil...

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Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would...

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Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness ...

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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is rig...

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Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, inte...

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I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...

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I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you...

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Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...

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Willa CatherAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will b...

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If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really g...

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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loya...

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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will d...

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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one...

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other p...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelMoral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...

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My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? I...

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I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto...

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to creat...

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Alexander McCall SmithMorality for Beautiful Girls

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...

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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ...

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We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We underst...

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Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through s...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

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Amit RayWorld Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much t...

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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves ha...

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There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is...

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

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It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the b...

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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousn...

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Ayn RandThe Journals of Ayn Rand

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationalit...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism