Quotes About Integrity

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job. Not proud, sir, said Runnel. But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

My husband is a good man, she said. It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only be good, he has to believe that he's good. In the eyes of God, in my eyes, in his parents' eyes, in his own eyes. Good.

No system works well unless good people do their jobs with integrity, and then almost any system works well enough.

If you always speak your mind, the evil man will avoid you.

I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.

to be deceived. You know why I am here." "Ah. I guess this means Dap filed a report.

Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.

They came for gossip, and he gives them responsibility.

Pero la naturaleza de los subordinados era usar el poder de manera intrépida, ya que la culpa siempre podía achacarse tanto a los de abajo como a los de arriba.

Why is it that the people who should be in authority are usually the people who don't want it, while the people who hold authority are usually the two-faced schemers who've stepped on people's backs to get it?

Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth.

the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I

A liar sees lies," said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines—the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth—when the truth was gettable.

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Conservar la dignidad y mostrar respeto donde es debido, para que la derrota no sea una deshonra.

You can tell a lie now and then, but what happens to you when you try to live your whole life inside a lie?

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

And I never believe a man who says he never lies. A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself, said Taleswapper.

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.

Wasn't that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted to do the right and the good more than you wanted to do what you wanted.

was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.

Blamelessness does not relieve us of responsibility