Quotes About Integrity

Before he even arrived, he sent each top police official a framed, hand-embroidered motto: Police Unto Others As You Would Have Them Police Unto You. What did that mean? Don't arrest anybody because you wouldn't like to be arrested?

You should try fighting for what you believe in sometime, Jack. Not for a company, or a nation, or for anyone else.

They're worth being scared of," I said. "They'd kill without a second thought." "I hate to say this, Boss, but so would you." "Yeah, but I'm a nice guy.

I'd tell her if I had two dead teckla I'd give her one.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.

One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. -Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. —Lyman Beecher

The Pack is gathering. There can be no culls among us.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Is there anything more worthless than excuses? -Emperor Kellanved

Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out.

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

When next you see Anomander, tell him this from me: he chose wisely. Each time, he chose wisely. Tell him, then, that of all whom I ever met, there is but one who has earned my respect, and he is that one.

I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.

Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.

Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.

A lot of times,, you are not going to fit in; a lot of times you are going to have to skip those parties to get to where you want to be.

I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.