#grit

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ↗

— Don Marquis

#likeable #persons #some #spite #their

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #leadership #leadership

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth

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. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#basis #believe #cannot #character #else

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#integrity #people #architecture

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#integrity #intrinsic-motivation #simons-rock #transcendence #wind

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #politics #art

When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down. ↗

— Sumner Davenport

#integrity #responsibility #attitude

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#clarity #costs #entitlement #informing #integrity