How far can a person go... and still live with himself.
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
I'm very competitive. I'm very honest, too, so I wouldn't cut anyone down to get ahead. I play fair, but I like to win.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
If you can’t learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself then you better not be a legislator and you better not marry.
I would say to you, have faith in yourself - believe in what you are doing, and, most important, be a person of integrity. It is totally up to you, and no one else, how your life evolves.
The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.
I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
I am very thankful and blessed that I haven't had to sell my soul and be anything that I'm not.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
