Quotes About Integrity

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

How long do you want these messages to remain secret?[...] +I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.

Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

But your way isn't just that set of rules," Cord said. "It's who you are — you follow that way for bigger reasons. And as long as you stay true to that, the confusion you're talking about will sort itself out eventually.

there is no honour among consultants.

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?

You work harder because everything is on the line. Your name, your honor, your family, your life. Those burger flippers might have a better life expectancy—but what kind of life is it anyway, you have to ask yourself.

If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.

Judge Fang got to eat this way only when someone really important was trying to taint him, and though he had never knowingly allowed his judicial judgment to be swayed, he did enjoy the chow.

If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite. Tools were for building things; and pride was something you could feel after the fact, when you stood back, looked at what you had built, and passed it on to your children. Dinah

Dinah could spend the rest of her life living by her word, giving everyone a fair shake, and all of that. Rufus would no doubt approve of all those things. But it was not the charge he had given her. He had told her, though not in so many words, to get busy building a future.

This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about in new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

Only because Rachel knows him," I said. "Being a den-mother to wayward witches is not in my job description, and I will not play along if it requires armed men in my living room.

he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite. Tools were for building things; and pride was something you could feel after the fact, when you stood back, looked at what you had built, and passed it on to your children.

Like a handful of nickels in a batch of bread dough this could be kneaded from place to place but never removed.