Quotes About Integrity

In the light of eternity, is it better to sell out and ride or stand up and walk?

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

You know but don't want to let on, Raylan said, seeing Nicky's hands right there at his waist, the boy still in the game, waiting to see if you have a move. Well, I'll tell you something. Shooting at a person is not the same as shooting out on a firing range. Even if you're a dead shot, it don't mean you can look a man in the eye and be able to pull the trigger. I know this for a fact, partner, cause I taught the use of firearms at the training academy.

Whether you're faking one or the other it isn't worth the state you get yourself in.

On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself.

Desprezava os discursadores, os astutos que entram na política como quem entra na advocacia, para ganhar dinheiro com a retórica.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

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What scum respectable people are!

When a man was honest in his dealings, you could forgive him the rest.

The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.

Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!

Don Benicio no se atrevía ni a respirar, hasta que poco a poco fue convirtiéndose en un sumiso, en un calzonazos, y se demostró una vez más que el matrimonio es incompatible con la dignidad del hombre.

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.

Good words, I replied. But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.

Good words., I replied. But deeds must prove it also.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face

People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.