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integrity quotes

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“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“A house can have integrity, just like a person . . . and just as seldom.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“I don't want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“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...” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“I am not an angel . . . and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.” E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“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, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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