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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
Sep 10, 2025
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.
You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?
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.
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of society.....Indeed, the strength and safety of any organization-including the family-lie in the integrity of its members. Without personal integrity, there can be no confidence. Without confidence, there can be no prospect of permanent success.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.
I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.