Quotes About Integrity

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.

There is no true scholar who has not the instincts of a true soldier in his veins. To be able to command and to be able to obey in a proud fashion; to keep one's place in rank and file, and yet to be ready at any moment to lead; to prefer danger to comfort; not to weigh what is permitted and what is forbidden in a tradesman's balance; to be more hostile to pettiness, slyness, and parasitism than to wickedness. What is is that one learns in a hard school? To obey and to command.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! [...] out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

You can see that I have become so candid that I can endure only human relationships which are absolutely genuine. I avoid half-friendships.

Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.

Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.

To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws.

Oaths are made to be kept only until their purpose be fulfilled, the fluty voice responded. Every geas is lifted at last, every self-set rule repealed. Otherwise orderliness in life becomes a limitation to growth; discipline, chains; integrity, bondage and evil-doing. You have learned what you can from the world. You have graduated from that huge portion or Nehwon. It now remains that you take up your postgraduate studies in Lankhmar, the highest university of civilized life here.

The reason that Fafhrd attached to Bwadres, rather than to any one of a vast number of livelier holy men with better prospects, was that he had seen Bwadres pat a deaf-and-dumb child on the head while (so far as Bwadres could have known) no one was looking and the incident (possibly unique in Lankhmar) had stuck in the mind of the barbarian.

he must first be true to his god's nature: which is, to hear what we say and hold us to it, to speak truth to man about what's going on in distant places, and to prophecy honestly—though he may try to trick us with words if we don't listen to him very carefully.

When I love I love, when I hate I hate. I don't believe in the kind of love that can be sliced and passed around, the kind of love that undermines and destroys while it pretends to caress.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.