Following is our list of the most famous probity quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational probity quotes. Hopefully, these probity quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your probity knowledge!
Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential. — Max De Pree
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
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 is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. — Stephen Covey
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
Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity. — Erich Fromm
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. — Brian Tracy
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. — Don Galer
Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private. — Joyce Meyer
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. — Edward Kennedy
Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end. — Daisaku Ikeda
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. — Charles Simmons
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. — Confucius
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
Short Probity Quotes
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths. — Suzanne Curchod
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. — William of Conches
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. — Obafemi Awolowo
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared. — Bertie Ahern
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. — Pratibha Patil
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors. — Chester A. Arthur
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. — James L. Buckley
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. — David Foster Wallace
Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline — Vinod Rai
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. — Stephen Fry
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. — Francois Rabelais
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that. — Sayings
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong. — Edgar Allan Poe
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible. — Aristotle
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again. — Sayings
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb. — Francis Quarles
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity. — Mazo de la Roche
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. — Elliot Richardson
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them. — Richard Davenport-Hines
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this. — Tony Kushner
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. — Henry David Thoreau
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. — Robert Gottlieb
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. — Theodore Dalrymple
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force. — Thomas Jefferson
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