#integrity

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#expectations #integrity #maintain #people #way

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#drag #gonna #gotta #integrity #mud

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#challenging #integrity #international #international peace #matter

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless. ↗

— Matt Baldwin

#faith

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#integrity #family

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free. ↗

— Alan Moore

#integrity #valerie-page #freedom

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. ↗

— Jane Austen

#emma #integrity #jane-austen #man #trick

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#back #come #felt #going #integrity

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#life