Integrity Quotes

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

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.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise

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

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

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

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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

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".

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

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

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

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.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

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

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

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

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

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.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.