Quotes About Integrity

I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted.

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

I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.

Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her? Some did, she said. I never liked it, but... Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.

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

A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.

It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

Make things right?" I asked. "Where did you learn that one?" "From Mr. Carpenter," she said. "He says making things right is the first and last thing you should do every day. And that it's what you always try to do.

the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.

I hope you're one of the good guys, Mr. Dresden. We really need a good guy. I

Good man always stands against that.

Because nothing cuts through bullshit like a proper fireball.

My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you.

My pledge of honor upon it.

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are.

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A

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's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz

you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible.