#grit

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. ↗

— Robert Aldrich

#causes #characters #deaths #doing #even

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. ↗

— Sydney Biddle Barrows

#did #i #integrity #kind #ran

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ↗

— William Congreve

#confidence #ears #his #integrity #little

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