Integrity Quotes - Page 33

• Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor.

  Pat McCrory

  Important, Vote, Duty

  "Is North Carolina's Voter ID Law 'Common Sense' Policy or Discrimination?". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. August 12, 2013.

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• It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.

  Alice Waters

  Years, Roots, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

  Cornel West

  Media, Voice, Leader

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Vegetables, Cover Ups, Rotten

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• Integrity is never painless.

  M. Scott Peck

  Painless

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

  John Calvin

  Secure, Conscience, Protector

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• A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, People, Accountability

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• Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

  Amy Chan

  Action, Good Intentions, Consistent

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• When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Who We Are, Authenticity

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Honesty, Memories, Simple

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• Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

  Jack Kornfield

  Care, Virtue, Genuine Happiness

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• Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Loses, Conscience

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• The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.

  Malcolm Morley

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Identity, Way

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.92, Lantern Books

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• Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Character, Way, Made

  "Nineteen Stars : a Study in Military Character and Leadership" by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., (p. 289), 1971.

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• I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

  Shailene Woodley

  Who I Am, Want, Living My Life

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

  Jessica Lucas

  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

  Linus Roache

  Giving Up, Writing, Character

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• My standards are so high because of who I serve but it doesn't put any water on my fire for winning. I'm still an intense person. You can be intense and saved. You can compete and still be saved. You can challenge a guy and still be saved. There was nothing soft about me as a player and there isn't anything soft about me as a coach. You want to be a man of integrity and you want the players to know that you care about them. Whether or not they still like you or not is a whole other deal.

  Avery Johnson

  Player, Men, Winning

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

  Michael Josephson

  Cost, Pay, Moral

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Son, Blood

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Delicate

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Support, Going Away

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, May, Architect

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