Quotes About Integrity

I knew that in the last few minutes everything had changed. I'd tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but make a whole.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about.

everyone is good at heart.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you...make your choices well. Because you will always be accountable for them.

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.

She just looked at me, and I wondered what on earth it was about her that made me be so honest. Like she was sick with truth, and really contagious.

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Why would I tell you anything but the truth? -Ethan For safety's sake we learn to be less honest at the beginnings of things, not more. But Ethan was different. With him and me, it was always about the truth. Why would I tell you anything but? It was the closest thing to I love you a boy had ever said to me. Maybe it meant even more.

I wonder again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous

Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.

There is often a "cadre" of bad friends around a person encouraging them to do things that are morally wrong, unjustified, and unethical

a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.

The thing about a country famous for its bribery is that the people who don't take bribes are very keen you know that about them.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

And what about all the good I have in my heart—doesn't it mean anything?

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves.

I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.

The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).