Quotes About Integrity

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

We learned from her how to think for ourselves, how to jump eagerly into adventure and then get out of the scrapes it inevitably involves, how to get to the truth, and, perhaps most importantly, how to spin into action when things are not right.

You don't make a female character strong by playing her opposite a buffoon. You just make her strong . .

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

Truth is dangerous.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.

Yes, I did," he says casually. "In the first minute I met them. Then in the second minute, I decided I wasn't going to be into dudes who treat others like crap only because they can. And then in the third, I actually stopped noticing they were around. I'm easily bored around stupid people.

Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.

There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.' I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.

The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

Never ,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.

This one hear will never be easy, because he's never learned to be false.

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?

Happy endings didn't happen for cheaters, or heroines who started one relationship without finishing another.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.

Some things are more important than safety.

You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery.

if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.