Quotes About Integrity

He was wrong," I said. "That doesn't make him a villain. It just makes him an asshole. It isn't reason enough to kill him.

I spent my lifetime fighting the darkness without becoming the darkness. Maybe I had faltered at the very end. Maybe I had finally come up against something that made me cross the line-but even then, I hadn't turned into a degenerate freakazoid of the Kemmler variety. One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

It's only cheating if he gets caught.

But what kind of wolfhound would I be if I listened to my inner Chihuahua?

There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.

life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right—but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.

It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong.

If you let Murphy get hurt, I'll kill you." "Kid, if anything happens to Murphy because of me . . ." I sighed. "I think I'll let you.

Her chin lifted, and her hard, cold eyes flickered in naked, unconcealed pride. "Never once in your life, my Knight, have you taken the easy road. I chose well.

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

My father used to speak to me often of the nature of power, Veredis said. One of the things he often lamented was that the only folk truly worthy to hold it were those who did not seek it.

But hardly old. Went silver early, I'd say. That's always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them.

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.

So I reached over, took her hand, and squeezed gently. After a while, I said, "Molly, I don't think it's ever going to happen. But if it ever does, the first time damned well isn't going to be like that. You deserve better. So do I.

I'm not sure it's possible to manipulate someone with candor and truth. I think you call that enlightenment.

bullies either. He'd be glad to have

Enduring great companies don't exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life, but they are not the very point of life.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

all of our investigative questioning, done when our kids might be telling the truth, may breed a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's been said that if we wrongly accuse our kids twice for the same thing, they'll set out to prove us right. You can almost hear them say with a sigh, "You think I do it anyway, so I might as well do it.

Generally, honesty is conveyed to our kids through our actions, not our commands. We need to step back and analyze the model we are presenting to our kids.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God's standards.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.