Quotes About Integrity

Un mejor liderazgo también tiene que ser algo más que nuevos métodos y técnicas. Las herramientas son necesarias, pero lo que realmente precisamos es sustancia.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.

and Schuyler hoped with all her heart that he would never find out the truth.

It's difficult to be honorable at your worst moment and to forgive those who do you wrong, to have to battle what comes naturally to you. But that's what it takes to be a monster living among mortals.

Never ever, ever make excuses for a scoundrel.

Good job, said Lonnie, who'd been watching from the balcony. Thanks, said Jay, pleased with how everything had turned out. He smiled when he realized he hadn't even had to steal anything to get what he wanted. He'd done it all by playing by the rules.

Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.

She couldn't have been much older than he was at nineteen, and guys who looked like him were used to pretty women smiling his way. Still, he wasn't interested in taking advantage of the fact that his girlfriend had abandoned him in Rome.

My aunts warned me of this many times—be wary of the sway of others, they told me. Find your own path and stay upon it. Don't allow yourself to be pulled in another direction, even if you must walk alone. "Do the most good," is their favorite saying. The most good. I like that, because it allows for, well, some of the not-so-good too. Sometimes a bit of that is necessary.

His mother had taught him exactly that: To do what must be done. But she had taught him to do it while having a heart. Not heartlessly.

But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.

If you have done nothing to feel embarrassed about, don't feel embarrassed. I know this is a tough concept, but it can be mastered.

The greatest gift we can bring to any relationship wherever we go is being who we are.

Say what we mean, and mean what we say. If we don't know what we mean, be quiet and think about it. If our answer is, "I don't know," say "I don't know." Learn to be concise. Stop taking people all around the block. Get to the point and when we make it, stop.

We can tell the truth. Lying about what we think, how we feel, and what we want isn't being polite—it's lying. We

When you're doing what's right for you, it's okay to say it once, simply, and then refuse to discuss anything further.

If we absolutely can't feel good about something we're doing, then we shouldn't do it - no matter how charitable it seems. We also shouldn't do things for others that they ought to and are capable or doing for themselves. Other people aren't helpless. Neither are we.

Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice.

When you're doing what's right for you, it's okay to it once, simply, and then refuse to discuss anything further.

It is hard to believe a man when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.

What is courage? its chorus asked--and the song answered, It is to give when hope is gone, when there is no chance that men may call you a hero, when you have tried and failed and rise to try again. It asked the same of friendship, answering that the friend stands beside you when you are right and all others despise you for it.

Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.