Quotes About Integrity

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Ty pointed his beer at Josh. Want to know what I think? No, Josh said. I think you have a case of being a little girl. Maybe you should prescribe yourself a heavy dose of man-the-fuck-up.

Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.

Always get the facts first. You can distort them later.

My parents taught me to be nice first because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice. Be nice until it's time to stop being nice. Then destroy them.

She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her.

Be smart. Be brave. Be vulnerable.

When climbing the ladder of life, don't let boys look up your dress!

it's the mark of a man how he handles hardship, not what he does for a living.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden. He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves. He nodded slowly. I think I like you.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, You're a good man, Harry. I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational, she said, smiling. But you're the best kind of crazy.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.