Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
~By Benny Green ~
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 ~
Integrity has no need of rules.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
~By Andy Williams ~
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
Honor your commitments with integrity.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
~By Gerald Walpin ~
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~By Erik H. Erikson ~
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 ~
We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
~By Chloe Sevigny ~
I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
~By Charles Edison ~
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.
~By Janine Turner ~
The integrity of the game is everything.
~By Peter Ueberroth ~
In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.
~By Christy Romano ~
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
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 ~
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 ~
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
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 ~
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
~By Esther Dyson ~
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
~By Herb Alpert ~
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
~By Peter Sotos ~
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.
~By Charles Rangel ~
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.
~By Maria Menounos ~
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 ~
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
~By Erich Fromm ~
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
~By Alan Autry ~
Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
~By Steve Coogan ~
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
~By Jane Rule ~
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
~By Roy L. Smith ~
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~By Douglas Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
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 ~
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.
~By Marc Maron ~
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
~By Michael Musto ~
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
~By Moliere ~
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
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 ~
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
~By John Webster ~
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 ~
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Tension is the great integrity.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
~By Don Marquis ~
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
~By Amy Grant ~
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 ~
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
~By William Cobbett ~
In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
~By Charles Grassley ~
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 ~
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
~By Bill Delahunt ~
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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 ~
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
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 ~
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
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 ~
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. 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 ~
It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.
~By Mike Peters ~
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
~By Joshua Micah Marshall ~
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
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