#integrity

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#business #coffee #excellence #greatness #hope

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. ↗

— Herbert Read

#choices #circles #community #integrity #peace

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#integrity #moral-courage #truth-telling #courage

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#flow #honesty #integrity #moral-courage #river

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. ↗

— David Mitchell

#integrity #courage

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

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

— Will Rogers

#integrity #family

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

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