Quotes About Integrity

Truth attracts truth as time attracts time

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden--so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.

Guard your heart, son," Eli said in a hushed voice. "That's what God looks at—your heart. Most folks look at the outside things, like the color of your skin. But God looks at your heart.

Trusting in Molech, as Ahaz did, or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect—there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.

I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine that you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

I need your trust in this, Alec. Can you give it?" Alec looked sidelong at the fire for a long moment, then locked eyes with him again, and replied in halting Aurenfaie, "Rei phoril tos tokun meh brithir, vri sh'ruit'ya." Though you thrust your dagger at my eyes, I will not flinch. A solemn oath, and one Seregil had pledged him not so long ago.

Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

Anything we do, talí, we do with honor.

A man does not come at what is mine, harm it, and walk away unscathed.

I would still be inclined to argue that you are underestimating the value of Twaddle's good name, for it is all that he has. As you yourself just pointed out, he is nothing but a name.

It was one thing to pursue your passion at any cost and quite another to make someone else pay the bill.

The only thing that kept me away was the knowledge that trust cannot be demanded. It must be freely given or it's meaningless.

SECRET #32 You don't need a thanks to know you've done the right thing.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.

A good woman knows she cannot be all things to all people, and she may, in fact, displease those who think she should just be nice. She is not strident or petty or demanding, but she does live according to conviction. She knows that the Jesus she follows was a revolutionary who never tried to keep everyone happy.

If my love must be a rodent, then shall I be anything but a rat?

Many years after the war, an American journalist asked Jeannie Rousseau, one of Marie-Madeleine's operatives, why she had risked her life to join Alliance. "I don't understand the question," replied Rousseau, who was responsible for one of the greatest Allied intelligence coups of the war. "It was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. It was a must. How could you not do it?