Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

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.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

We're all trying to live up to our personal codes, so we relate to people who we see doing the same thing.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.

I'll never go against my morals.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.