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INTEGRITY
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Dignity
consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness
that we deserve them.
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
I
am an old man, but in many senses a very young man.
And this is what I want you to be, young, young all
your life.
-- Pablo
Casals
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Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right
things.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
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Try
not to become a man of success but rather try to become
a man of value.
-- Albert
Einstein
I
have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends
in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more
proper for a herd of swine. *
The
ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after
time given me new courage to face life cheerfully,
have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.-- Albert
Einstein
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Nothing
is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
There
is a time in every man's education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation
is suicide; that he must take himself for better for
worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because
you will always find those who think they know what
is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in
the world to live after the world's opinion; it is
easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Remember
not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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Remember
not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
It is easier to live through someone else than to
become complete yourself.
-- Betty
Friedan
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"You
have to do the right thing... You may never know what
results come from your action. But if you do nothing,
there will be no result." -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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They
cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give
it to them. -- Mohandas
Gandhi
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Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
A
"No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and
greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or
what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mohandas
Gandhi
*
"You
have to do the right thing... You may never know what
results come from your action. But if you do nothing,
there will be no result."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
A weak
man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is
unjust by accident.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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Are
right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon
popular opinion?
-- William
Lloyd Garrison
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In
matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters
of taste, swim with the current.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
I
never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single
act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having
never believed there was one code of morality for
a public, and another for a private man.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
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And
when at some future date the high court of history
sits in judgment on each of us ... will be measured
by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly
men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment...
Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally,
were we truly men of dedication?
-- John
F. Kennedy, 1961
And
when at some future date the high court of history sits
in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief
span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the
state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold,
will be measured by the answers to four questions: First,
were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men
of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity...
Finally, were we truly men of dedication?
-- John
F. Kennedy, 1961
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.
-- Jewel
Kilcher
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I
have a dream that my four children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
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The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
We
will have to repent in this generation not merely
for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
Hope
begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show
up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You
wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
-- Anne Lamott
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Leadership
consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of
character; it requires moral rather than athletic or
intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and
follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
-- Lewis
Lapham
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“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.”
~ Aldo
Leopold (American ecologist, 1887-1948)
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I
never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very
best each and every day.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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When
I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
Nearly
all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power.
--
Abraham
Lincoln
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You
can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about
political correctness, affirmative action and all
the other innumerable things that freedom is about,
unless you have a free society based upon the integrity
of the individual. If you have a responsible society,
these other issues will not come up in a responsible
society, and that is what freedom is all about.
-- Russell
Means
"Integrity
is the ability to accept one’s past choices and actions
and go forth and act in accordance with one’s deepest
values from within. This self-honesty comes from a
well-formed conscience which insists on living up
to firm standards and values. Integrity insists on
affirmation for self and others alike."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Integrity
is the ability to accept one’s past choices and actions
and go forth and act in accordance with one’s deepest
values from within."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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A
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right.
-- Thomas
Paine
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Character
is much easier kept than recovered.
-- Thomas
Paine
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My
country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas
Paine
The
strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his
special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
~Blaise Pascal
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The
whole course of human history may depend on a change
of heart in one solitary and even humble individual
- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual
that the battle between good and evil is waged and
ultimately won or lost.
-- M.
Scott Peck
"We
are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we
can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and
good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity
and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love
and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little
better than we found it."
~ Robert
Reich
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Live
in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell
your parrot to the town gossip.
-- Will
Rogers
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We
must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and
not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether
we are going to be successful. Because if we don't
do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing,
and we will just be part of the disease, and not a
part of the cure.
-- E.F.
Schumacher
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Civilization
can only revive when there shall come into being in
a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent
of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition
to it -- a tone of mind which will gradually win influence
over the collective one, and in the end determine
its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue
us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence
only in individuals.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
The
more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable
he is.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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If
it were easier to choose to do the right thing, wouldn't
people be more likely to do it? Maybe peace on earth
is an impossible dream, but if we changed the rules,
this world could be so much better. So, why do we
allow an unfair system to rule us by fear? Why don't
we work together to create a better world and bring
hope!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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If
it were easier to do the right thing, wouldn't people
be more likely to do it?
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Follow
your dreams of a better world, and keep on trying,
even when there seems to be little hope, because it
is the right thing to do. We may never know how the
seeds of kindness that we plant may help others on
their journey, today, or even sometime far in the
future. But Every act of compassion makes a difference!
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
If
it were easier to choose to do the right thing, wouldn't
people be more likely to do it? Maybe peace on earth
is an impossible dream, but if we changed the rules,
this world could be so much better. So, why do we
allow an unfair system to rule us by fear? Why don't
we work together to create a better world and bring
hope!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds
is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way.
Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true
test of moral character.
-- Margaret
Chase Smith
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The
right way is not always the popular and easy way.
Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true
test of moral character. -- Margaret
Chase Smith
*
We
must not allow ourselves to become like the system
we oppose.
-- Desmond
Tutu
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right
and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which
isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide
against your conviction is to be an unqualified and
excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country,
let me label you as they may.
-- Mark
Twain
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Principles
have no real force except when one is well-fed.
-- Mark
Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark
Twain
*
It
is curious that physical courage should be so common
in the world and moral courage so rare. -- Mark
Twain
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There
is much to be done, there is much that can be done…
one person of integrity can make a difference...
-- Elie
Wiesel
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