Quotes About Integrity

Natuurlijk stond Will daar klaar. Want Halt had hem daar nodig. Will zou er zijn, omdat hij Will was - en Will had Halt nog nooit in de steek gelaten.

Weet je, Arnaut,' zei hij na enige tijd, 'vroeger was je zo'n onschuldige, vriendelijke knaap. Je deed geen vlieg kwaad. Wat is er de laatste tijd toch met je aan de hand?' Arnaut grijnsde breed. 'Wie met pek omgaat, wordt zwart!' riep hij. En dat kon Halt niet ontkennen.

Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

Polycarp answered, Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never once wronged me; how then shall I blaspheme my King, Who hath saved me?

Trust is a delicate state that can be shattered in an instant by a single hurt or disappointment.

Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman.

I hate the man who builds his nameOn ruins of another's fame.

if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...

never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...

If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

"Who touches a hair of yon gray headDies like a dog! March on!" he said.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

From those great eyesThe soul has fled:When faith is lost, when honor dies,The man is dead!