Integrity Quotes

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Say only what you mean.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.