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Quotes About Integrity

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
~ Paulo Coelho
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
~ Paulo Coelho
I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...
~ Paulo Coelho
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
~ Paulo Coelho
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
~ Paulo Coelho
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.
~ Paulo Coelho
You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry
~ Paulo Coelho
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you're not saying 'no' to yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
~ Paulo Coelho
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only cowards hide behind silence.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
~ Paulo Coelho
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
~ Paulo Coelho
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard
~ Paulo Coelho
Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.
~ Paulo Coelho