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"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face
the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Theses are the magic
keys to living your life with integrity."
- W.
Clement Stone
"It
is not the facts which guide (our) conduct, but (our) opinions about facts;
which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion."
- Sir
Norman Angell
"Every man has three
characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he
thinks he has."
-
Karr
"In the long run, digging for truth has
always proved not only more interesting but more profitable than digging for
gold."
- George
R. Harrison
"Facts that are not frankly faced
have a habit of stabbing us in the back."
- Sir Harold Bowden
"Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Stowe
"No one man can, for any considerable
time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without
finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one."
- Hawthorne
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to
thee that shall make thee break thy work or lose thy self-respect."
- Marcus Aurelius
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him
forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
- Horace Mann
"Music is your own experience, your
thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your
horn."
- Charlie Parker
"If you call forth what is in you, it
will save you. If you do not call forth what is in you, it will
destroy you."
- Gospel of Saint
Thomas
"To contact the deeper truth of who we
are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we
assume to be true about ourselves."
- A. H. Almaas
"Man will occasionally stumble over
the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it,
and carry on."
- Winston Churchill
"Honesty and transparency make you
vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
- Mother Theresa
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
- Shakespeare
"If you tell the truth you don't have to
remember anything."
- Mark Twain
"The men who succeed best at public
life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions."
- James A. Garfield
"To find yourself, think for
yourself."
- Socrates
"How desperately difficult it is to be
honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people."
- Edward F. Benson
"There is no wisdom save in truth."
- Martin Luther
"Falsehoods not only disagree with
truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."
- Daniel Webster
"Every violation of truth is a stab at
the health of human society."
- Emerson
"Truth, when not sought after,
rarely comes to light."
- Holmes
"Let the people know the truth and
the country is safe."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Half of the work that is done in
this world is to make things appear what they are not."
- E. R. Beadle
"Character is not made in a crisis —
it is only exhibited."
- Dr. Robert Freeman
"Good leaders cultivate honest speech;
they love advisors who tell them the truth."
- Proverbs 16: 13 MSG
"There is no more powerful weapon for
change than honesty."
- Margaret Heffernan
(CEO, CMGI)
"You got to be who
you are when you are."
- "Snoop Dog"
"Believe those who are seeking the truth;
doubt those who have found it."
- Andre Gide
"We must be the change we are trying to
create."
- Ghandi
"What is true is invisible to the
eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Morality in government begins with
officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth."
- David Gergen
"Just get rid of the false and you will
automatically realize the true."
- Ho-Shan
"The pursuit of truth is like picking
raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle."
- Randal Marlin
"Example is not the main thing in
influencing others. It is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Only in quiet waters things mirror
themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the
world."
- Everett W. Lord
"Nothing more
completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than
straightforward and simple integrity in another."
- Colton
"The sincere alone can recognize
sincerity."
- Carlyle
"Just be what you are and speak from your
guts and heart - it's all a man has."
- Hubert Humphrey
"Like an ability or a muscle,
hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
- Robbie Glass
"It always comes back to the same
necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however
hard."
- May Sarton
"Sincerity is impossible unless it
pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of
character."
- James Russell
Lowell
"Unless you give yourself to some
great cause you haven't even begun to live."
- William P. Merrill,
D.D.
"A man that seeks truth and
loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society."
- Frederick the Great
"We must be truthful and fair in the
ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism
and religion."
- Ed Howe
"Our view of reality is like a chart
of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost."
- Al Watts
"It is easier to know the truth than
to seek the truth."
- Charles Kimball
"Truth is what stands the test of
experience."
- Albert Einstein
"In our world, the road to holiness
necessarily passes through the world of action."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"You can never be sure whether you
are discovering the truth or inventing it."
- Frederick Buechner
"To thine own self be true, and it
must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
- William Shakespeare
in Hamlet
"The truth - you've got to deal with
it or it will kill you bit by bit."
- Ziggy Marley
"There can be no happiness if the
things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Freya Madeline
Stark
"Follow the grain in your own wood."
- Howard Thurman
"To contact the truth of who we are,
we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to
be true about ourselves."
- A. H. Almaas
"Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Stowe
"Words without actions are the
assassins of idealism."
- Herbert Hoover
"How shall we learn to know
ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy
duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee."
- Goethe
"All worthwhile men have good
thoughts, good ideas and good intentions - but precious few of them ever
translate those into action."
- John Hancock Field
"Honesty is the first chapter of the
book of wisdom."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The truth is to be lived, not just
mouthed."
- Hui - Neng
"He does not believe that does not
live according to his belief."
- Thomas Fuller
"Best keep yourself clean and
bright; you are the window through which you see the world."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The truth is more important than
the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Sometimes you can't find the truth; you
have to wait for it to find you."
- Chris Jones
(Esquire Magazine)
"Not all truth will be discovered in
what is to come; some must be recalled from what has been forgotten."
- David J. Wolfe
"When one man or woman decides to
risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing
and hear."
- Robert Fulghum
"An organization's works, not its
words, are the telling assessment of its beliefs."
- John Carver
"Sometimes, leadership differs from
non-leadership only in that leadership views the world with a slightly
larger lens."
- John Carver
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what each man wishes, that he also believes is true."
- Demosthenes
"Trust is the great simplifier. If
people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would
disappear."
- Will Schutz
"Everyone prefers belief to an
exercise in judgment."
- Seneca
"You only build credibility by
telling the truth. You simply can't operate unless people believe you and
believe one another."
- Jack Stack
(in The Great Game of Business)
"We lie loudest when we lie to
ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer
"Who is more foolish, the child
afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"
- Maurice Freehill
"The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"If we attach more importance to
what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value
belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity."
- Nathaniel Branden
"There is but one cause of failure
and that is a man's lack of faith in his true self."
- William James
"Leaders lead by
virtue of who they are."
- Kevin Cashman
"Belief is not primarily about
dogmas but about action. If we believe in a future we will act like
it."
- Matthew Fox
"What does it matter how one comes
by the truth so long as one pounces on it and lives by it?"
- Henry Miller
"Rather than love, than money, than
fame, give me the truth."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The truth is not simply what you
think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom,
why and how it is said."
- Vaclav Havel
"Most of the basic truths of life
sound absurd at first hearing."
- Elizabeth Goudge
"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but
it cures."
- Han Suyin
"I tore myself away from the safe
comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded
me."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"We may be personally defeated, but
our principles never."
- William Lloyd
Garrison
"The truth is the kindest thing we
can give folks in the end."
- Harriet Beecher
Stowe
"If you do not tell the truth about
yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
- Virginia Woolf
"You must never confuse faith that
you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the
discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,
whatever they might be."
- Jim Stockdal
"Conviction is worthless unless it
is converted into conduct."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Putting first things first means
organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is
living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas
and forces surrounding you."
- Stephen R. Covey
"Unless it grows out of yourself no
knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage."
- D. T. Suzuki
"Concerning all acts of initiative
or creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, then providence moves too... Whatever you think you
can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and
power in it."
- Goethe
"Everyone has talent. What is
rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark places where it
leads."
- Erica Jong
"I have often thought morality may
consist solely in the courage of making a choice."
- Leon Blum
"Character is doing what's right
when nobody is looking."
- J. C. Watts, Jr.
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
virtue is doing it."
- David Starr Jordan
"We know truth, not only by reason,
but also by the heart."
- Blaise Pascal
"Truth is the only safe ground to
stand upon."
- Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
"The heart of effectiveness is building
integrity through the constant observation of one's lack of integrity."
- William Torbert
"Demanding historical (or
scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel
vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose."
- Charles Kimball
(in When Religion Becomes Evil)
"The difference between fiction and
reality is that fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Lying makes a problem part of the
future; truth makes a problem part of the past."
- Rick Pitino
"If the brutal facts are not faced
by leaders, the brutal reality sets in."
- Andy Grove
"I don't think you can do a greater
disservice to someone who works for you or with you than to not be truthful
about performance."
- Shelly Lazarus
(Ogilvy)
"If I speak up I am condemned; if I
stay silent I am damned."
- Jean Valjean (Les
Miserables)
"It's time to question a job or
career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things
appear other than what they really are."
- Al Watts
"You never find yourself until you
face the truth."
- Pearl Bailey
"The essence of an organization lies
in what it believes, what it stands for, and what it values. An
organization's works, rather than its words, are the telling assessment of
its beliefs."
- John Carver
"Sing your song; don't let the
bastards get you down."
- Garrison Keillor
"If you are not prepared to resign
or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a
professional. You are a slave."
- Howard Gardner
"The truth may make you free, but
there's an even chance it will first scare the daylights out of you."
- Gregg LeVoy
"Honesty is the first chapter in the
book of wisdom."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The best advice I can give to any
young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in
exactly eight words, and they are - be honest with yourself and tell the
truth."
- James A. Farley
"Aside from the strictly moral
standpoint, honesty is not only the best policy but the only policy from the
standpoint of business relations. The fulfillment of the pledged word
is of equal necessity to the conduct of all business."
- James P. Bell
"The essential element in personal
magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the work one
has to do."
- Bruce Barton
"Not the truth of which one supposes
himself possessed, but the effort he has made to arrive at truth, makes the
worth of the man. For not by the possession, but by the investigation, of
truth are his powers expanded."
- Lessing
"Our view of reality is like a map
with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and
accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false
and inaccurate, we generally will be lost."
- M. Scott Peck
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