Quotes About Integrity

The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

It was his mistake in thinking that a snake would choose to be anything but a snake.

And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Have I not expressed sufficient remorse?' 'You have. But there are still consequences. Even for necessary things.' 'I broke none of my laws...' 'No, but you broke mine. [...] Therefore, I can no longer speak to you. You are... Unsavory to me.

One apology is enough," the scythe told the boy. "Especially when it's genuine.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

The Admiral's using us, he says to the kids around him. Don't you see that? Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. I'd rather be used whole than in pieces, Hayden says.

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren't happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. The emperor not only had no clothes, turns out he had no testicles either. The

Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain, Kele had said. I mean, you don't know where it's been.

Credit is where credit is due and to honner the trixture whose illusions finally become true

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

People like you because you've got integrity. Even when you're being an ass.

Truth can only be served from a scalding kettle; whether you blister or make tea is up to you.