Quotes About Integrity

The harder the world the fiercer the honor

The perfect hero is one whose heroism none sees. The most precious glory is the glory lost on senseless winds. The highest virtue is the one that remains for ever hidden within oneself.

Humans insisted on others behaving properly, but rarely forced the same standards upon themselves. Justifications dispensed with logic, thriving on opportunism and delusions of pious propriety.

But ownership bereft of propriety was a lie.

Strings for when I'm lying, Fiddler for when I'm telling the truth.

You do not trust her?" "Of course I trust her. And my trust is made purer by her ignorance.

Never apologize when you're right, Keneb.

to hide weakness behind bluster was to hide nothing at all.

It is not for you to judge – yet how often is it that those in no position to judge are the first to do so, and with such fire and venom?

You'll do right, soldier, because you don't know how to do anything else. Doing right, soldier, is the only thing you're good at.' And if it hurts? 'Too bad. Stop your bitching, Fid. Besides, you ain't as alone as you think you are.

Us soldiers only got one kind of coin worth anything, and it's called respect. And we hoard it, we hide it away, and there ain't nobody who'd call us generous. Easy spenders we're not. But there's something feels even worse than having to give up a coin – it's when somebody steps up and tosses one back at 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.

The key, I think, is to hold true to your own aesthetics, that which you value, and yield to no one the power to become the arbiter of your tastes.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

Mom told me that. When someone is acting inappropriately, don't normalize it. Make it clear to everyone that you are not okay with the behavior.

Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.

Group ideology is privileged far above a member's experience, conscience, and integrity. If a member doubts or has critical thoughts about those beliefs, it is due to their own shortcomings.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?"43

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

Adamantly, Paul said, "You know I did not come tickling your ears like other speakers do. I did not try to exploit you." The apostle obviously did not buy into the tired mantra that so many chant today—while the message stays the same, the method is free to change.

Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.