Quotes About Integrity

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

How remarkable," [Wit] said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

It was useful to have a reputation, so long as it didn't crush you.

That girl never did have the decency to be wrong an appropriate amount of the time.

Dime la verdad —pidió Adolin—. Júramelo, Kaladin. Dime que esta noche deberíamos dejarte solo. Quiero que me lo jures.

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.

Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn't make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn't soil your own hands doing.

A man should never pull a trigger unless he's willing to kill. And if the other fellow is armed, I'm going to aim for the chest. That way, when people do die around me, it's the right ones.

You are striding atop a very thin wall, my friend. Loyalty is a difficult thing to divide.

Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off.

Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn't get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.

In the end, it wasn't the wealth or the job's thrill that made her stay. It was the shadowed prospect—unlikely and unreasonable, but still seductive—of a group whose members actually trusted one another.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

La libertad no era la ausencia de responsabilidad: era ser capaz de hacer lo que estaba bien, sin necesidad de preocuparse porque también pudiera estar mal.

Well, not on Lopen's watch. You didn't let your friends drown in nameless oceans during a frigid storm. That was, sure, basic friendship rules right there.

Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.

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

There is honor in loss

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

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

A veces, un hipócrita no es más que una persona en proceso de cambio.

All the things that matter in life are the things that you can't measure.…

But never try to be who you aren't; you don't have nearly enough practice to pull it off.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.