Quotes About Integrity

I was learning that the Winter had a curious integrity all of its own.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

Goodness me, no,' he replied with perhaps not quite the tone of veracity in his voice he'd hoped for, 'you can leave whenever you want.

Some things are worth going to jail for, Victor," replied Bowden in an even tone. "As LiteraTecs we swore to uphold and defend the written word—not indulge a crazed politician's worst paranoic fantasies.

O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...

los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.

porque yo sé muy bien que en política hay que hacer cosas que nadie quiere hacer, hay que ensuciarse las manos, pactar con el diablo si hace falta. Por eso, si hay infierno, todos los políticos iremos al infierno. Esa es la realidad, y quien no la conoce no debería dedicarse a la política, porque no sabe lo que es el poder.

La valía de un hombre se mide por la cantidad de enemigos que tiene.

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

Y qué es un héroe? [...] - Alguien que se cree un héroe y acierta. O alguien que tiene el coraje y el instinto de la virtud, y por eso no se equivoca nunca, o por lo menos no se equivoca en el único momento en que importa no equivocarse, y por lo tanto no puede no ser un héroe [...]

Most people in bad times cut corners in the most treacherous way imaginable—by downsizing human or intellectual capital, the real asset of most businesses today. That is a mistake. You can find no greater upside-leveraging tools than the energy, passion, intelligence, connections, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human beings you surround yourself with.

A person's life persuades better than his word," said one of Aristotle's contemporaries.

When you do a good thing, don't just do it in front of the mirror. Let people see your wonderfulness. It will do wonders for your reputation among humans.

Professor Bullfinch had taken up the obsidian ax, and he hefted it thoughtfully. "I should hate to have to turn this against a person," he said. "Still, a scientist should not shrink from new experiences

No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.

Threats are a waste of everyone's time. They leave room for doubt. They encourage an opponent to test your willpower or your strength.

Determination was a superpower, but like any power, it could be used for bad ends.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

Nothing is true but what is never said.

I don't mind being killed, but I don't want them to touch me.

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.