Mercedes Lackey Quotes

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Act your part with honor.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Integrity is never painless.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.