Richelle Mead Quotes

You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.

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.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

I think that a sense of loyalty is something that a lot of people lack, just period, in life.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

I do what I think is right.