Thought for Today

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."

~~~~~ Alan K. Simpson

Thought for Today

"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."

~~~~~ Charles M. Schwab

Thought for Today

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

~~~~~ Robert E. Lee

Thought for Today

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."

~~~~~ Julia Ward Howe

Thought for Today

"Admitting Error clears the Score,
And proves you Wiser than before."

~~~~~ Arthur Guiterman

Thought for Today

"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."

~~~~~ Charles Simmons

Thought for Today

"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."

~~~~~ Edward H. Harriman

Thought for Today

"'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it."

~~~~~ Leonard Bacon

Thought for Today

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

~~~~~ Robert E. Lee

Thought for Today

"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."

~~~~~ Barbara Jordan

Thought for Today

"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

~~~~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Thought for Today

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."

~~~~ Davy Crockett

Thought for Today

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

~~~~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought for Today

"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect."

~~~~~ Thomas S. Monson

Thought for Today

"The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one."

~~~~~ Lewis Grizzard

Thought for Today

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

~~~~~ Ovid

Thought for Today

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."

~~~~~ Alan K. Simpson

Thought for Today

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

~~~~~ Leo Buscaglia

Thought for Today

"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."

~~~~~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Thought for Today

"There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back."

~~~~~ General Robert E. Lee (1807-1872)