Quotes About Integrity

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

If you let somebody take advantage of you, it gets worse, not better.

Will you ever own up to

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Being good or evil is a choice.

Never out of shame or to win favor

Choices determine character.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!" "The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

I will protect even those I hate," Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. "So long as it is right.

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

If I should die," Dalinar said, "then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there." "The Codes?" "No. The Way of Kings." "That storming book.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

Let your actions defend you, not your words.

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.

Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.

I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.