#grit

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place. ↗

— John Sununu

#america #bonds #borrowing #commitment #done

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#every #every man #integrity #life #man

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#ethical #integrity #money #moral #nothing

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. ↗

— Robert Aldrich

#causes #characters #deaths #doing #even

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. ↗

— Sydney Biddle Barrows

#did #i #integrity #kind #ran

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ↗

— William Congreve

#confidence #ears #his #integrity #little

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ↗

— Don Marquis

#likeable #persons #some #spite #their

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #leadership #leadership

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 up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#basis #believe #cannot #character #else