As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing.
A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward (Firing Back)
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
-John D. MacDonald (Novelist, 1916-1986)
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Maitreyi-Yajnavalkya dialogue includes a discussion of love and the essence of whom one loves, suggesting that love is a connection of the soul and the universal self (related to an individual):
Lo, verily, not for love of a husband is a husband dear, but for the love of the soul a husband is dear.
Not for the love of the wife is a wife dear, but for love of the soul a wife is dear.
— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.4.2–4
Variant translation:
Truly, it is not due to the love of a husband
that a husband becomes dear,
but due to the love of God
that a husband becomes dear.
Truly, it is not due to the love of a wife
that a wife becomes dear,
but due to the love of God
that a wife becomes dear.
Truly, it is not due to the love of all things
that all things become dear,
but due to the love of God
that all things become dear.
The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
-Dodinsky
