Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.
A house can have integrity, just like a person.
He [Lord Rosebery] would not stoop [to common politics]; he did not conquer.
I knew I needed to keep my nose clean and set the right example.
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.
There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard.
of a public corporation or organization
As a woman there's probably 20 people in your life that have underestimated you or will. Whether that be in your career or in your personal life and you've just got to battle it.
I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
I am an outsider. I was never offered the kind of roles where I could play the glamorous diva, because there are already so many of them doing it - and doing it well. So I had to bring to the table much more than just looking good.
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.
It's not my style to talk trash to my opponents.
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...
I hate controversies and want to be in the news for the right reasons.
