Quotes About Integrity

And I don't want to be a part of the 'who's got the bigger sword?' contest you two have going on, either. I don't do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being

It means he can trust you, and trust is not an easy thing to give or receive.

You do know I couldn't let you run, don't you?" "I wasn't—" "You were." "If you think that, then why'd you come after me?" "Because you didn't want to run. You just thought you had to." "That's a little arrogant." "It's honest. I like honesty.

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy." My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.

I've committed many despicable acts in my life—and if I enjoyed them enough, I would do them again—but I would never dream of spoiling the ending to a book.

If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

Well, you know, sometimes we're hardest on the people we know we can count on not to ditch us no matter how lousy we act.

A good heart can't ever let the bad get in, Mama's voice whispers in my head. You got a good heart, Hannie. Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.

A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang. Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is.

best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those things true.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.

things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.

Tough times make good people and bad people.

That's what I'd say in my essay about To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided. I'd make sure the English teacher knew that the story of Jem and Scout and Atticus Finch wasn't just words someone made up in a book. There were people who lived it—people of all different

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.