Quotes About Integrity

You couldn't be stabbed in the back if you faced your attackers.

You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.

your excuses are so lame they're limping

a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him.

but she didn't understand and couldn't accept using that unhappiness as an excuse or rationale for being unfaithful. why didn't people just end it? if they wanted someone else, or something else, why not break it off clean first instead of cheating, lying, tolerating, just existing?

CiCi Lennon lived life by her own rules. Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.

Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don't have the spine to say what they think." "You've

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.

put your faith and your emotions into the wrong hands, and he didn't respect either.

You're a warrior. A warrior isn't a killer because a warrior, a true one, has honor. The men who'll come aren't warriors." "No

In every world, I think, all who can must learn and remember and stand against those who never do.

Karma's not just a bitch, she's a righteous bitch. And he won't break you, because you won't let him.

I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us?

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

You don't intend to keep your word, even when it's hard, you don't give it. You have to respect that.

If more than one person knows a secret, it isn't a secret.

The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 

Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She

you can't forgive without trust

when you mess up, you have to face up to it, make it right. Then people respect you, and even more, you can, you know, respect yourself." She felt a twinge in her gut as she dumped chocolate powder in a mug. "Man," she muttered. "Everybody makes mistakes, but cowards hide from them.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.