Integrity Quotes - Page 23

• A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

  Robert Burns

  Mean, Promise, Mind

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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Arbitrary, Guarantees, Judgment

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Love Life, Caught, Contagion

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

  Freya Stark

  Adaptability, Fetters, Ifs

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.86, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

  Freya Stark

  Excellence, Sake, Following

  freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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• In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

  Freya Stark

  Truthful, Conscious, Form

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

  Denis Diderot

  Virtue, Evidence

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• Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Book, Creativity, Goal

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Knowing Nothing, Bystanders

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

  David Swing

  Heart, Greatness, People

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• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Army, Years, People

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

  Buck Brannaman

  Art, Treats, Fine

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

  Laurence Sterne

  Honesty, Men, Looks

  Laurence Sterne (1857). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.548

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• The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Mean, People

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• Integrity expects integrity.

  Ellis Peters

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.277, Head of Zeus

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• There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Success, Artist, Want

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Adversity, Enemy, Energy

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• When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Reputation, Turns

  John Tillotson, Thomas Birch (1820). “The works of Dr. John Tillotson ... with the life of the author”, p.23

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• Integrity gains strength by use.

  John Tillotson

  Honesty, Use, Gains

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Inspiration, Bridges

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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• Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

  Nathanael Greene

  Mean, Relief, Useless

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Mean, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.

  Margaret Walker

  Believe, Thinking, White

  Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr

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• An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

  Maya Lin

  Strong, Art, Fighting

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• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Jared Sparks (1855). “The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks”, p.371

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