Quotes About Integrity

You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong. That's what my father told me. Forgot that advice, for a long time, and I done things I can never make up for. Still, it doesn't hurt to try. My experience? You get what you give, in the end.

The world is a grey place. A place of half-truths. Of half-wrongs and half-rights. Yet there are things worth fighting for, and they must be pursued with all our vigour and commitment. Half-measures achieve nothing.' 'What

Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?

I despise violence. It is the last tool of feeble minds.

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

There's nothing unpatriotic about the truth," muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

Never trust a man beyond his own interests.

Olyan rendben tartsd a hazugságaidat, mint a télire eltett vet?magot.

In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

I was loyal to both", said Clover. "I was just more loyal to me. Truth is, men love to blab abour loyalty till it might trap 'em on the losing side. Then there's a chorus o' silence on the issue. So I consider reasonably loyal to be a bit more loyal than most, and a lot more honest than most. It's a fool who makes folk choose too often between loyalty and good sense.

The pilot of a foundering vessel, perhaps, looking to his captain, silently asking if they really did intend to go down with the ship. Perhaps that's why captains do go down with their ships. No better ideas.

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

La principal lealtad de un hombre es la que tiene para consigo mismo

Si se puede traicionar a un hombre una vez, no es tan difícil hacerlo dos veces

Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?' asked Nothing.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.

But some things have to be done. Better to do 'em, than to live with the fear of 'em.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.

Seemed being a better man might be harder work than he'd thought.

a man who doesn't keep his word isn't much of a man at all.