Christina Grimmie Quotes

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

I try to be honest. I try to take the high road. That's all I can do.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

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

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.