#grit

So remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debitures of quality and dubious integrity Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen ↗

— Janis Ian

#life #loneliness #maturity #popularity #youth

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#honesty #integrity #secularism #life

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honesty #integrity #lying #trust #integrity

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. ↗

— Henry James

#self-esteem #integrity

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. ↗

— Omar Nelson Bradley

#integrity #cheating

I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? ↗

— Charles Portis

#satan

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. ↗

— Brian May

#excitement #grit #guitar #kind #nothing

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life. ↗

— John Milius

#became #easy #good #good qualities #help

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. ↗

— Junius

#integrity #measured #men #professions #their