David Garrow Quotes

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

I don't believe in hopping from one social issue to the next to be a part of the movement for a moment. Anything I'm involved in is something that I would die for. I can't support things that don't feel genuine.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.