Integrity Quotes - Page 36

• The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

  George W. Bush

  Ethical Standards, America, Abuse

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• A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity.

  Albert Mohler

  Biblical, Consistency, Tests

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Mean

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• The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.

  Charles Koch

  Winning, People, Roles

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• The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Mean, Too Much

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• Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans. You can be passionate about a show, but I don't think that people are obsessed to the point where it's so manic that they lose themselves and they lose a sense of their center of morality.

  Matthew Davis

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

  Daryl Wein

  Careers, Soul, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• There are countless times where you're trying to channel somebody who's not there, but that's what you have to do. But Audrey Geisel, who has executive produced this film and Horton, and who works remarkably close with me, is a great source of information. (The Simpsons creator) Matt Groening once told me that one of the most important roles that he fulfills on The Simpsons is being the keeper of the integrity of the original vision.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Vision, Important, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Thinking, Expression, Vision

  Source: collider.com

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Work, People

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• The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

  Rory Vaden

  Foundation, Life Is, Disciplined Life

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.53, Penguin

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• There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Apology, Men, Tests

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• Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

  Rosie Perez

  Strong, Stars, Mean

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• [My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Europe, America

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• Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.

  Jeff Bryant

  Children, People, Parent

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• Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

  Ron Kaufman

  Essentials, Energy, Valuable

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• Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

  Douglas Conant

  Mean, Matter, Situation

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2015

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• Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

  Michael Hyatt

  Honesty, Reality, Our Words

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• Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

  Mick Jagger

  Home, France, Goddess

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• To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Enjoy Life, Challenges

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.209, Macmillan

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• No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
  Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Extravagance, Given

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.171, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

  Theodore Bikel

  Exercise, Facts, Degrees

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• Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Speaks Out, Empowering

  "Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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