#grit

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#completely #duplicity #full #himself #integrity

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#clear #condemn #duty #his #integrity

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#artist #box #her #i #integrity

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#financial #hard #importance #integrity #preserving

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#bar #constitution #dignity #english #ever

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#completely #could #difference #does #each

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. ↗

— Joseph Story

#entirely #integrity #justice #less #personal

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#got #grates #had #i #integrity

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#autonomy #i #integrity #keep #tried