#grit

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#life

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#equips #high #high standards #institute #integrity

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. ↗

— James E. Faust

#integrity #truth-telling #love

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#nature #path #transcendence #nature

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

#integrity #lying #strength

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#behavior #character #devotion #god #godly

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

#respect