I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
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
(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.
It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven. . . . We may attend to rites and rituals and yet overlook the weightier matters such as brotherly kindness, honesty, mercy, virtue, and integrity. Let us never forget that if we omit them from our lives we may be found unworthy to come into His presence.
I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone. ' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
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.
By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.