Oprah Winfrey - Quotes

 Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody 

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Marcus Garvey - Quotes

 The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity. 

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Warren Buffett - Quotes

 Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don 

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Epictetus - Quotes

 You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is. 

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Ani DiFranco - Quotes

 and half of learning to play is learning what not to play

and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say

and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves

and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove



she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home

and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone



up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple

but god's work isn't done by god

it's done by people 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of a neighbor 

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Eleanor Roosevelt - Quotes

 When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? 

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Quotes

 And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety. But how much pleasure there is in simplicity that is pure, in itself unadorned, and veils no part of its character!{PlainDealer+} Yet even such a life as this does run some risk of scorn, if everything lies open to everybody; for there are those who disdain whatever has become too familiar. But neither does virtue run any risk of being despised when she is brought close to the eyes, and it is better to be scorned by reason of simplicity than tortured by perpetual pretence. 

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Wilkie Collins - Quotes

 I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you 

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Gertrude Stein - Quotes

 You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.  

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Quotes

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

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Cesar Millan - Quotes

 I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. 

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Herbert Edward Read - Quotes

 In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. 

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Harper Lee - Quotes

 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. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. 

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Wilhelm Reich - Quotes

 I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. 

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Marcus Aurelius - Quotes

 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. 

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George Washington - Quotes

 I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. 

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Patrick White - Quotes

 Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty. 

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Carla Jo Masterson - Quotes

 Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions.



Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care.



What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference.



All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality.



The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.



Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth. 

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George Eliot - Quotes

 Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. 

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Marilynne Robinson - Quotes

 It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. 

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Marcus Aurelius - Quotes

 How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. 

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Ariel Gore - Quotes

 Settling other people's land is an American tradition. 

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Spencer Johnson - Quotes

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

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Lillian Hellman - Quotes

 I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. 

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Henry Adams - Quotes

 No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. 

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Will Rogers - Quotes

 Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.  

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Thomas Fuller - Quotes

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

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Lois McMaster Bujold - Quotes

 Royse Bergon:  

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Jane Austen - Quotes

 It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one 

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Abdul Majid - Quotes

 I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. 

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