#grit

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#integrity #isolation #reading #self-knowledge #social-change

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful. ↗

— Gary Hamel

#grit #success #change

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#integrity #moral-courage #truth-telling #courage

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#flow #honesty #integrity #moral-courage #river

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. ↗

— David Mitchell

#integrity #courage

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. ↗

— Dr. Henry Cloud

#character-defining #character-development #character-driven #character-quote #encourage

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #personal-responsibility #responsibility #song-of-ice-and-fire #death

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do. ↗

— Charles Finch

#beauty

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. ↗

— John Webster

#fame #integrity #life #death