Quotations on Integrity

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.    - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. 
-- Source Unknown

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -- Richard M. Nixon

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -- Helen Keller

 We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. --Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -- Mark Twain

 If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them. -- Source Unknown

There is no limit to what can be done if it doesn't matter who gets the credit"- Author Unknown

The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation;

The truth you believe determines your character.

Reputation is what you are supposed to be;

Character is what you are.....

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community;

Character is what you have when you go away.

Your reputation is made in a moment;

Your character is built in a lifetime.....

Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;

Character is what the angels say about you before the throne

of God." - William Hersey Davis

I know only one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. --Antoine de Saint Exupery

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
   - Aldous Huxley