No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~By Ovid ~
The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.
~By Paul Crouch ~
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
~By Alan Cohen ~
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
~By Douglas Adams ~
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
~By Francis Bacon ~
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
~By Mike Davidson ~
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~By Ayn Rand ~
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
~By Daryl Gates ~
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
~By John D. MacDonald ~
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~By Erik H. Erikson ~
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
~By Harry Houdini ~
Tension is the great integrity.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~By Leo Durocher ~
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
~By Winfield Scott Hancock ~
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
~By Steven Seagal ~
Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.
~By Tim Robbins ~
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
~By Thomas Erskine ~
I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
~By Jack Brickhouse ~
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
~By Mark Udall ~
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
~By Chloe Sevigny ~
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
~By Charles Grassley ~
It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
~By Andy Williams ~
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
~By Kojo Annan ~
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't.
~By Richard Parsons ~
So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
~By Deborah Cox ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
~By Luke Scott ~
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
~By George Mason ~
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
~By Moliere ~
However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.
~By Janine Turner ~
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
~By Ken Kesey ~
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
~By Gracie Allen ~
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
~By Herb Alpert ~
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.
~By Julie Christie ~
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
~By Chris Cannon ~
I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
~By Charles Edison ~
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
~By Glenn Beck ~
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.
~By John Amery ~
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
The integrity of the game is everything.
~By Peter Ueberroth ~
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
~By Joseph Story ~
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
~By Michael Tippett ~
It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.
~By Kelli White ~
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
~By Jane Rule ~
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
~By David Talbot ~
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
~By Alan Autry ~
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
~By Elena Kagan ~
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
~By Ann Oakley ~
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
~By John Lynch ~
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~By Arthur Cohn ~
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
~By John Milius ~
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
~By Vanessa Kerry ~
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
~By John Webster ~
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government.
~By Mark Warner ~
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
~By John W. Gardner ~
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
~By Don DeLillo ~
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