#integrity

Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#integrity #life #life

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

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

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#count #earn #fair #honesty #integrity

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#been #compassion #daughters #family #force