“AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.”
“They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.”
“Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.”
“Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that s absolutely where you must stand solid.”
“God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!”
“There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”
“Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile. I like that idea. It s reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can t, after all, go so far afield as we might, he hesitated, yes, as we might. Eastman looked at him sourly. Cavenaugh, when you ve practiced law in New York for twelve years, you find that people can t go far in any direction, except- He thrust his forefinger sharply at the floor. Even in that direction, few people can do anything out of the ordinary. Our range is limited. Skip a few baths, and we become personally objectionable. The slightest carelessness can rot a man s integrity or give him ptomaine poisoning. We keep up only be incessant cleansing operations, of mind and body. What we call character, is held together by all sorts of tacks and strings and glue. ( Consequences )”
“You don t have to walk on water, it s how you walk on land.”
“Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others.”
“Integrity is defined as “being honest and principled.” Integrity is a compass directing and guiding individual, team, and company actions.”
“Leadership integrity means owning up to the successes, shortcomings, and failures of organizations.”
“Integrity grows through frequent investments that affirm the goodness of ideas and people.”
“Integrity increases when we act authentically, committing the goodness of our character to the noble intentions of those near and far.”
“Just because time is bad; never take doubt on commitment & integrity.”
“Always take care of your people who are very close to you. Prioritize them. Give them lessons & examples of integrity. They will automatically intelligent & energetic. Don t worry about the rest. Sometimes people come in your life for short & spoil your idealism you never needed.”
“Dear, highly esteemed bookcase, I salute you. For over a hundred years you have devoted yourself to the glorious ideals of goodness and justice. Throughout the hundred years your silent appeal to fruitful work has never faltered. It sustained [through tears] in several generations of our family, their courage and faith in a better future and fostered in us the ideals of goodness and social consciousness.”
“Pride yourself on the fact that if gallantry, generosity, and fidelity disappeared from the world, they could be found in you.”