Practicing Integrity Quotes & Sayings

We interpret the world through stories ... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment. — Byllye Avery

Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom. — Jose Mujica

Pine nuts pound for pound are more expensive than most varieties of smoked salmon. There I said it. — Dov Davidoff

Personal happiness is always a very serious matter. — Sheena Iyengar

Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security. — Billy Graham

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time. — Ozzy Osbourne

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. — Sharon Salzberg

They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort — Gordon B. Hinckley

Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus. — Sarah Noffke