Quotes About Integrity

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

No matter what you're feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.

The Four Virtues--virtue, demeanor, speech, and work.

Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster." —Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't make apologies for being yourself.

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.

When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.

For sure, I would much rather look as if I have it all together and never make mistakes. But as the Bible cautions us, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."12

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Count the deed, not the thought.

righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose—it's like handing them a toad—but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it.

I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We do not speak of rightness, Taran answered. We speak of a task to be finished.

There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as a chick wearing eagle's feathers. But that's only one kind of bravery. Has the darling robin ever scratched for his own worms? That's bravery of another sort. And between the two, dear Orwen, he might find the latter shows the greater courage.

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.