Pavel Durov Quotes

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.

My moral compass is strong.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

My future is righteousness.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.