Integrity Quotes

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.