Integrity Quotes

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?