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.
Honesty & Integrity Quotes (2497 Quotes)
My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.
We have no intention of doing either one to be perfectly honest. We have every intention of working out an arrangement with the Russians and I think we will,
Flat-out, the last several years, being totally honest, we weren't good enough to advance.
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
Anyway People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
At a moment of great challenge and enormous need in the history of this company, the Board turned to one of its own, whose long career embodied the highest levels of trust, integrity and distinguished leadership, ... We needed an experienced, steady hand and Bill delivered. On behalf of our Board, our employees, investors, partners and customers, we will be forever grateful.
This settlement demonstrates the continuing resolve of the government as a whole to address the problem of yield burning and to ensure the integrity of financial markets, ... The government is pleased that it was able to reach this settlement without causing issuers or holders of municipal bonds to suffer adverse tax consequences.
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 standardsthe ethics of excellencecome to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.
It was beautiful, because it was the first time everyone got together to discuss the situation. I'll be honest, we really didn't have any answers. There were some things we discussed, but I don't know what the solution is.
Are there things we need to work on You bet. We are understaffed here, to be honest. Some classes are larger than we want and we need to work on that.
One wants to be an honest man one is so, one works hard but still one cannot make both ends meet on must give up the work, there is no chance of carrying it out without spending more on it than one gets back for it one gets a feeling of shortcomi
I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
Tonight sucked. Tonight was awful, to be honest.
I was so impressed with what he said and the integrity he had. I thought he made some great comments.
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
It may seem cliche, but honesty is the best policy. Even if you are motivated by the best of intentions, being deceitful can seriously compromise your credibility with colleagues and negatively impact your career progress. The vast majority of hiring managers -- 85 percent -- say they are less likely to promote an employee who has lied to them or other members of the organization.
He's a hard-working guy with lots of integrity. I encouraged him. We need good people becoming involved in politics.
competitive spirit, integrity and will to win.
I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
Honesty will never break you.
I don't think our kids handled the physical play, to be honest. I, obviously, took a technical for asking for holding, which I don't think we handled all that well. The frustration from that carried into how bad they played.
What this is about is not the money. It's about their integrity.
The troops tend to be very honest. In Iraq, everything is on the record.
I'm sure none of the fans did. And in all honesty, I think the only people who thought we could go to Seattle and win two games were the players. I'm not really sure that all of our coaching staff thought so.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
It doesn't happen so frequently that we have rules. It's just common sense. With witnesses from the candidates, they were able to gather up and put (the ballot box) back together so that they could continue and maintain the integrity of the election.
The wind just hindered us today, to be honest. As dry as it is, it's not unusual at all.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
What he did was wonderful. He has a great deal of integrity. You don't always hear good stories.
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
I'm sorry, but I'm pretty boring to be honest. Really, I am.
Zone Labs has always been known as the leader in complete Internet security solutions. Yet as hackers get more savvy and the PC becomes a commodity worth monetary value on the black market, consumers must also use care as they surf the 'Net. Armed with the right information, people can defend the integrity of the Internet and defeat those who would exploit it for criminal purposes.
Bill has the vision to challenge America to greatness and the integrity to restore the nation's faith in our public institutions.
I would have expected this. He's a brilliant person, and he's got emotional integrity. He was one of the most unique people I've ever known. He was a kid, and it was like he was 35 or 40. He was 19. He was a totally mature adult, and he was brighter than I was.
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
No journalist in this country understood the Liberals better than Bob. He drove those guys nuts but kept the politicians honest.
Any time there are questions about contracts or the integrity of our procurement processes, we investigate and we'll cooperate fully in any outside investigation.
We're not trying to be a negative influence, so it's definitely not a habit of ours, but it was an honest mistake. We apologize, sincerely.
The latest incidents have increased concerns over ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq and the preservation of the country's territorial integrity.
To be honest, our 6-year-old son, Albert, usually makes the choice. Right now the Partridge Family and Brady Bunch are big around here.
This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
I have found a deep sense of commitment and pride from the Nortel employees and I am excited by the energy generated for our business transformation, integrity renewal and growth activities. I also want to thank our employees and leadership team who have continued to execute with a passionate customer focus in the face of many challenges over the last several years.
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.