Integrity proverbs

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◆ I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

- Lillian Hellman99

◆ They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- Harper Lee99

◆ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

- Albert Einstein99

◆ When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

- Barbara De Angelis99

◆ Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

- Oprah Winfrey99

◆ I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

- Frederick Douglass99

◆ The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.

- Cheryl Hughes99

◆ Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

- Dorothy L. Sayers99

◆ But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln99