Quotes About Integrity

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything strange? Alanna didn't look up. No. It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.

She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.

Ozorne, please don't let him try to make me into a battle mage. I wish you'd told me that's what you wanted. Arram stopped and grabbed his friend by the arms. I won't do it. I'm not a killer. I'll never be a killer.

A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a successful lie and getting caught. —From A Workbook for a Young Spy, written and illustrated by Aly's father and given to her on her sixth birthday

Folk who tell the truth don't think they must keep repeating it. It's the truth - it's obvious. Only liars tell it over and over, trying to hammer their like into others' minds.

Free of me, I was whole.

I do not want the lying kindness and the gifts of men, nor of other than men. I am armed now.

Yes, he was very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than Vazkor, for his weapon was honesty.

He could not use her or profane her, this mirror image of his life.

She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas. -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

director under George H. W. Bush

People reveal their true character when they're off center.

Everything we say, do, and think, aligns us with darkness or light, love or grievance. Thus everything is a spiritual practice, whether we are aware of it or not. We are constantly, in every moment, aligning with one way of being or another. The choice is ours to make each moment of the day.

A warrior without pretension was unencumbered by distraction.

In a way, I suppose, I think of poems as a sort of animal. They have their own life, like animals, by which I mean that they seem quite separate from any person, even from their author, and nothing can be added to them or taken away without maiming and perhaps even killing them. And they have a certain wisdom. They know something special … something perhaps which we are very curious to learn.

As Jean-Paul Sartre said, we are the sum total of our actions. What is in our hearts does not matter.

Campbell's Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.

Wer ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hat, dem bleibt keine andere Wahl als die Wahrheit zu sagen.