Quotes About Integrity

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.' He shook his head. 'But some men think it's the best thing in the world.

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

In hard times, it's easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn't always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn't have to.

Codes of honour, I fear, aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

his brother used to tell him it was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

He'd been happy to swear it when things were going well and supposed he couldn't just unswear it the moment things turned dicey. What kind of an oath would it be then?

Everyone says you're the most untrustworthy bitch in the whole North.' 'No one should know better than you what the things everyone says are worth. Truth is, I only care about keeping my word to folk I like. I seem untrustworthy because there are only seven of those outside the hills.' She made a fist of her tattooed hand, trembling tight. 'To those seven, I am a rock.

I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.

A good liar lies as little as possible.

Trouble with the good fight, I find... once the fight starts, the good stops.

I make no judgements on hearsay.

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 halfwits. A great leader puts others before himself. You

It has honesty, integrity. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Los hombres buenos nunca llegan muy lejos cuando hay que recorrer sendas oscuras.

It is for one's own sake that one does good things.

Amazing how far you can get if you stick to a straight line and look like you've got every reason to be there.

Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean.

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing." "It's

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

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him, his father always used to say. Where was the glory in easy victories?

It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles where the right path weren't easy to pick. But it wasn't mean to be easy, it was meant to be right. There were many men always did the easy thing, regardless.

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

When it comes to virtue, after all, appearances are everything.