Quotes About Integrity

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

The trouble with lies is that they love company. Once you tell a single lie, that lie gets terribly excited and calls all its friends to visit. Soon you find yourself making room for them in every corner, turning down beds and lighting lamps to make them comfortable, feeding them and tidying them and mending them when they start to wear thin.

Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever .

The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

You can't kiss a girl into anything.

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours.

He'll never be good if he can't choose to be nasty. It's the choice that makes the good.

még ha le is vetsz minden egyes ruhadarabot, rajtad maradnak a titkaid, a történeted, a valódi neved. Meglehet?sen nehéz valóban mezítelenné válni. Keményen meg kell dolgoznod érte. Megfürdeni nem jelent egyet a p?reséggel, nem igazán. Csak megmutatod a b?rödet. A rókáknak és a medvéknek is van b?rük, így aztán nem szégyellem magam, ha ?k sem.

Accuracy is next to godliness.

Bravery is not seen in one act. It is measured by the choices and deeds that fill our everyday lives.

How can we come to church and sing our hymns and pray our prayers and spit on the very creation God made above every other living thing on this earth?

Very reliable woman, Carla,' said Will. 'Great

A billionaire Swiss friend had put it wonderfully when he said that having money merely emphasized what you were all along. If you were a poor son of a bitch, you'd turn into an even worse son of a bitch with money. But if you were fundamentally decent, then you'd stay that way - simply with a nicer bank balance

To live an ethical life is to be held accountable for history.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path

And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?