Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson. . . (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club. . . I have no concern for Jobe.
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
It was about bringing integrity to everything I would do, no matter how small or large the part was. With every audition, I would bring that integrity, so if I didn't get the part it didn't matter to me, because I did the best job I could possibly do. I always walked away feeling like I accomplished something real, no matter what.
I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do.
For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories. . . And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.