#integrity

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#integrity #moral-courage #courage

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#integrity #moral-courage #courage

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#time

Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be. ↗

— Charles Kohlhase

#integrity #dreams

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#friendship #integrity #friendship

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#celibacy #convent #dignity #following #grief

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. ↗

— Clarence Day

#integrity #love #love

Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help. ↗

— Leila Summers

#integrity #inspirational