#integrity

And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety. But how much pleasure there is in simplicity that is pure, in itself unadorned, and veils no part of its character!{PlainDealer+} Yet even such a life as this does run some risk of scorn, if everything lies open to everybody; for there are those who disdain whatever has become too familiar. But neither does virtue run any risk of being despised when she is brought close to the eyes, and it is better to be scorned by reason of simplicity than tortured by perpetual pretence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#doing #doing the right thing #going #integrity #know

If not us, then who? If not now, then when? ↗

— John Lewis

#change #civil-rights #integrity #moral-courage #personal-responsibility

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

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#integrity #matters #nothing #you

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#constitution #institutions #integrity #laws #liberty

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#always #any #bunch #creation #generally

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#ethical #integrity #money #moral #nothing

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