#integrity

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#became #big #diva #holding #holding on

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#high #honesty #integrity #respected #rewarded

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#assume #becomes #duty #entitles #essential

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#makes #music #worthwhile

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#misattributed-to-j-k-rowling #equality

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

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

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

— Bill Delahunt

#financial #hard #importance #integrity #preserving

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