Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity. — Erich Fromm
Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage. — Tony Dungy
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential. — Max De Pree
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. — Charles Simmons
Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions. — Billy Graham
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. — Thomas S. Monson
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. — Brian Tracy
Good moral character is the first essential in a man. — George Washington
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. — John W. Gardner
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers — Kiran Bedi
Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity. — Cornel West
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. — Don Galer
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. — Alan K. Simpson
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown
Integrity has no need of rules. — Albert Camus
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. — John D. MacDonald
Moral Integrity Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
What Is Integrity Quotes
Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are. — John C. Maxwell
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back. — Bill Walsh
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. — George Carlin
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. — Wilhelm Reich
It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good — Greek Proverbs
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment. — George Nelson
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. — Eugene Gendlin
Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! — Shakti Gawain
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. — Gaston Rebuffat
Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. — Abraham Lincoln
Personal Integrity Quotes
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing — Jim Rohn
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. — Caroline Myss
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey
Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.
Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries. — Gabrielle Roth
You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. — Daniel Goleman
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
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. — Jacqueline Bisset
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. — Dennis Prager
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years. — Kurt Cobain
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. — Charles Stanley
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. — Arleigh Burke
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. — Maya Angelou
No Integrity Quotes
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. — Charles R. Swindoll
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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. — W. Clement Stone
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
No one should underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity. — Xi Jinping
Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money. — Daymond John
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. — Alan Bullock
Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special. — Peggy Whitson
For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor. — Max von Laue
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts. — Patrick Ness
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do. — Barbara Coloroso
Ethics And Integrity Quotes
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
Ethics is not just something that people worry about and discuss; it's actually something that needs to be integrated into the process of scientific discovery and technological development. — Jennifer Doudna
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. — Josiah Stamp
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company — Charles Evans Hughes
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. — Thomas Jefferson
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for. — Harold S. Kushner
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships. — Buck Rodgers
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts. — Pema Chodron
Man Of Integrity Quotes
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? — Saadat Hasan Manto
Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. — Omar N. Bradley
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. — John D. MacDonald
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. — Ovid
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. — Adlai E. Stevenson
That’s because he was man of deep thought and integrity. He thought giving away the taxpayers’ money to a large corporation was not in the best interest of the taxpayer. — Bill Miller
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws? — Max Planck
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life. — Tad R. Callister
Honor And Integrity Quotes
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values. — Pierre Trudeau
It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly. — Boomer Esiason
When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary. — Paul Begala
It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light. — Ziggy Marley
There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle. — Robert E. Lee
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams
I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up. — Glenn Beck
What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are. — Bill Courtney
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue! — A. A. Milne
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion. — Bill Nye
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You can’t have a moral society without sound money. — Robert Breedlove
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel
Moral Values Quotes
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. — David Ben-Gurion
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan
Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me. — Lenny Bruce
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will. — Berry Gordy
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. — Simone Weil
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. — H. L. Mencken
Moral Character Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character. — Charles Grandison Finney
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character. — Bill Hybels
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. — Margaret Chase Smith
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. — Charles Darwin
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Robert H. Schuller
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated. — Samuel Smiles
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
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. — Jackson Katz
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. — Raymond Chandler
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. — Marcus Aurelius
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. — Hillary Clinton
A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition. — Balaji Srinivasan
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. — Laura Schlessinger
Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. — Naval Ravikant
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. — Ayn Rand
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective. — Michael Fullan
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings. — Steven Seagal
A quiet conscience makes one strong! — Anne Frank
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. — Joseph Conrad
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom. — Paul Kurtz
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. — Pitirim Sorokin
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. — Jewel Kilcher
A little integrity is better than any career. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson
Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. — Baruch Spinoza
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble. — Henry Kravis
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. — Seneca
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. — Raymond Chandler
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. — Eric Hoffer
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. — Jane Rule
The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence. — Billy Graham
A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family. — T.I.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination. — R.J. Rushdoony
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. — Benjamin Franklin
In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules. — Jeff Probst
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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