Avenues to Integrity

The Avenues to Integrity

Integrity Quotes for College Students *

• With virtue you cannot be entirely poor. . .
  Without it you cannot be really rich.
  - Chinese Proverb

• One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

      
  - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008, Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian
  

  
  Image source: NobelPrize.org
  

• One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
  

       - African Proverb

• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
       - Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008, British science fiction writer

  
  Image source: The New York Times
  
  

• Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.
  - Michael Josephson, Born 1942, American speaker and lecturer on the subject of ethics

  
  
  Image source: Josephson Institute of Ethics
  

• Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
  - La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French moralist, writer
   
  Image's source, The Master of Eloquent Melancholy
  
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  Integrety is not a 90 percent thing, a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
  

       - Peter Scotese, Born 1920, American textile industry executive
  

  
  
  Image source: Inside Fairchild AFB

• I am a big believer in the "mirror test." All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
  
  - John McKay, 1923-2001, Head coach of the USC Trojans from 1960 to 1975, and of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976 to 1984.
  
  Image source: BuckStop.com
• Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day.  Where have I turned aside from rectitude?  What have I been doing?  What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?  Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
  
  

       - Pythagoras, B.C. 582-507, Greek philosopher, mathematician

  
  

  
  

• The longer is the excuse...
  the less likely it's the truth.
  - Robert Half, American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half Associates

• Truth is so rare it's delightful to tell it.
  

  
  - Emily Dickinson, 1830-1866, American poet

  
  Image source: Emily Dickinson's Biography - The Emily Dickinson Museum

• I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
  
  

       - Mother Jones, 1837-1930, Born Mary Harris, American labor organizer

  
  

  
  Mother Jones Portrait about 1902
  Courtesy the Library of Congress
  

• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
       - Arthur Calwell,1886-1973, Australian politician 

  
  

  Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896 - 1973), by P. I. King, 1940s,
  courtesy of National Library of Australia.

  
  

  Image source: Bio at Austrialian Dictionary of Biography
  
  
  
  

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
       -  Phillip James Bailey, 1816-1902, English poet
  

  
  

   
  Image source: Wikipedia

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  - Pogo in  Walt Kelly's panel for the Earthday, 1971

  
  

  Walt Kelly, 1913-1973, American animator and cartoonist

  
  

   

• It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
      - Peter Drucker, 1909-2005, American author, management consultant, professor

  
  

  
  Image source: Beal City Public Schools, Michigan
  
  
  

• A liar needs a good memory. 
       - Quintillian, ca. 35 - ca. 100, Roman rhetorician from Hispania

  
  

  
  Quintilian's statue in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain
  Image source: Wikipedia

• The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
       - Li Ka-Shing, Born 1928, Hong Kong citizenship, Asia's richest man and philanthropist

  
  

  
  Image source: Li Ka-Shing Foundation

• When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
        - Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, Prussian Chancellor Image source: History Archive, Social Security Administration
  
  

  
  

  
  

• I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
       - George Washington, 1732-1799, First president of the U.S., general

  
  
  

  
  Photo by beyondjustice in Photobucket.com
  
  

  
  

   

  
  

   

• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
       - Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936, Russian author

  
  

  
  "Glacial World"
  (Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon)
  by Marc Adamus, Unforgettable Wilderness Photography

  
  

   

  
  

   

• Freedom is the right to be wrong,
  not the right to do wrong.
        - John G. Riefenbaker, 1895-1979, Canadian Prime Minister 1957-1963

  
  

   
  Read his biography at the image source: Wikipedia

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  Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
  
       - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881, Russian novelist                                       

  
  

   
  Image source: in an email

  
  

   

• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
       - Faith Baldwin, 1893-1978, American novelist

  
  

    Image source: Post in whatsonxiamen.com - China's unusual phenomenon: buildings torn down unnaturally