Integrity Quotes

We can block our blessings with one thought, one decision. Sometimes your blessing may require certain actions on your behalf. You asked for the job? Now, you must get dressed and go to the interview and prove yourself worthy of the position. When you move, you activate your faith. And, suddenly everything falls into place. Faith without works is dead.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Someone once said that integrity comes from caring about what other people think of you; but I don't think that integrity comes from caring what other people think about you. I think that integrity comes from you caring about how you affect other people. If your integrity comes from caring about what others think about you, then your integrity will have no foundation and it will always change based upon other people. And that's not integrity at all.

~ C. Joybell C.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear angelic and saintly as if they never had horrible youth days.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.

~ Bell Hooks

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

~ Nathaniel Branden

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

~ Criss Jami

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

~ Stefan Molyneux

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

~ Nathaniel Branden

A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.

~ Confucius

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

~ Gary Hopkins

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.

~ Philip Abelson

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.

~ Todd Stocker

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.

~ Gary Hopkins

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel

~ Michelle Carithers

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

~ Michelle Carithers

Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.

~ Gary Hopkins

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?

~ Michelle Carithers

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Become faithful to yourself, if you do, it will come natural towards everyone else.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Beware some people are just talking to you to gain information to use against you. Be careful with what you say around others because it may not be understood the way you expected. There are those who are waiting for the opportunity to spread rumors. And, with only a few words your life has been turned into a soap opera.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It's all a matter of perception. What one person deems to be important may be just as equally unimportant to another.What one deems to be right may seem very wrong to someone else.Your moral compass and values may not always be totally in sync with others you meet. In the end it's all just your perception of how you choose to live your life and this may not always win you friends. In fact it may gain you some enemies.Live your life how you choose to and if people don't like the way you do things then disagree if you must, but be nice & be respectful and then if you must, move on and leave it all behind you. It's your life after all and only you can live it. Choose your path and set your compass then start walking.

~ Michael Tianias

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.

~ Steve Goodier

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

~ Irving Stone

What are we if we are not disciplined?

~ Rob Liano

You don’t need validation or approval from anyone but yourself. Even if the entire world goes against, disagrees with or attempts to crush you, stand up for what you believe in, and stand up alone if you have to! It’s better to die while living your own truth than to live in the truth of another. Lord Krishna in the holy Bhagavad Gita pointed this out when he said;“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” Integrity is the key to freedom. It’s only your own truth that can ‘set you free.’ It’s perfectly fine if your truth doesn’t match that of others because the experience of physical reality is a completely subjective one. It doesn’t make either of you wrong, as long as you’re both being true to yourselves, that’s all that matters.

~ Craig Krishna

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

~ John O'donohue

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

~ Aberjhani

Staying true to who you are is essential to anyone's success.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

~ Mike Klepper

Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn’t care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn’t just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, to turn back time, and there was something dazzling about waiting excitedly for a reel of film to come back in its yellow and red Kodak envelope, eating buttered popcorn while the projector paraded life’s best moments, and capturing something beautiful in only three minutes.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

~ Gordon A. Eadie