Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word. Mercedes Lackey
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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Wendelin Van Draanen
What is left when honor is lost?
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Publilius Syrus
Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
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Lois Lowry
When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you...
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Amanda Quick
Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures. Von to Silver
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Adrian Phoenix
More Quotes By Mercedes Lackey
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you...
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.-- Shin'a'in saying
If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good – they’re the things worth living and dying...
