Integrity Quote by Jane Austen

“If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“But he had seen so little of life and the world himself, that he could scarcely help being one-sided and narrow-minded; and as he…

— Mrs. Alfred Gatty

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a…

— Saint Ignatius

“Self-reflection, the ability to make of his own deepest feelings an object which he could set before him and pay it tribute, and, in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect on the…

— Jane Austen

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had…

— Jane Austen

“When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self.”

— Gian Kumar

“if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause…

— James Allen

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things…

— Marcus Aurelius