Quotes About Integrity

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

This Santa's beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasn't fucking around.

I can't stand being mean. People playing games. I want to guard myself against it, but I make a shitty guard for my own heart. I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different

Choose your actions wisely.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

The truth isn't laughable And the trust isn't funny at all.

i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad.

I know there's a twisted code of honor about never tattling on another student, never speaking up against someone who's done you wrong. I know I will only make it worse by breaking this code. But the code of honor was written by bullies for the protection of bullies, and I don't want to follow it.

Is saying 'I love you' really what defines a relationship? It's the actions, not the words.

His features are attractive, but what he does with them is not.

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

The truth doesn't have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.

I never said a bad word about him. The whole time the two of your were together. Not one bad thing.

I can make up my homework, but I can't make up my life.

Kindness connects to who you are, niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

That's the law I've set down for myself--don't disrupt the life you're living in. Leave it as close to the same as you can.