Quotes About Integrity

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame.

be you and not someone else

Harper to your word be true Holder, crafter you also hew To honesty, integrity, and respect All others without regard to intellect

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

accepting lifts is cheating and I cycled on.

Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself. Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give. --Hester Latterly

What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act—because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

In science, even more than elsewhere, to suppress a truth is to consent to a lie.

She had a capacity for tact, but she was also extremely honest, and if tact and honesty conflicted on any important matter, the honesty won.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWERS.

FINALLY she had convinced him that she would still respect him in the morning.