Integrity Quotes

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If integrity is considered a virtue, it may be because most people lack integrity. Also, as only a few succeed in their pursuits, some may link failure with a lack of integrity. But this is not fully true. When you reason it out, you might conclude that honest people are more likely to fail and the dishonest rise faster.

~ Awdhesh Singh

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

~ Jack Gardner

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

~ Richard J. Foster

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate most of all is hypocrisy and phoniness . . . Let them see us doing what we would like them to do.

~ Billy Graham

[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.

~ Billy Graham

Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

~ Billy Graham

A godly person—one who serves Christ and exhibits purity and integrity in his life—is not necessarily welcomed or admired by those who live differently. They may even react in scorn, or refuse to include a christian in their social gatherings because his very presence is a rebuke to them.

~ Billy Graham

God’s standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.

~ Billy Graham

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.

~ Billy Graham

Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.

~ Billy Graham

I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.

~ Billy Graham

Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people—separated from the moral evils of the world.

~ Billy Graham

The truth is that others judge us. More than that, they evaluate the truth of the Gospel by what they see of our lives and our integrity. [We] must make every effort to be above all suspicion in the matter of finances and statistics. We are not only accountable to God’s people, but also to our Master (see Acts 24:16).

~ Billy Graham

Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

~ Billy Graham

People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.

~ Mike Klepper

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

~ Thomas Jefferson

When we live with Integrity every word, thought and action springs from the Intelligence of the Heart and flows in harmony, enlightened by the pure light of Consciousness.

~ Human Angels

The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

~ Ayn Rand

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

~ Mickey Zucker Reichert

In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

~ T.f. Hodge

It makes me sad that so many people feel they're only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do we connect, but by commonality, by mutual understanding and truth in life's experiences? Whether it makes you smile or cringe, a truth spoken is a healing thing.

~ Jennifer Delucy

Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.

~ Pawan Mishra

Principle comes first, action thereafter.

~ Todd Stocker

You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things trigger that. We all struggle with our anxiety and twisted issues. Defamation of character is not kind, nor Christlike. Because when you label people with self righteous vindication you open the door to the very idea that self righteousness is itself a disorder that we should all be afraid of. This doorway when left open too long gets people to pull away from Christ, not run to him.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Integrity never goes out of style.

~ Jim George

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I realized that with everything I did from that point onward, I would have to ask myself this question: How would I feel if what I'm doing right now is written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or if it is on television? Would I still do it? That is a very useful exercise for leaders to engage in, because we shouldn't do anything we might be embarrassed by or ashamed of.

~ John E. Mackey

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

~ Will Jelbert

I've done some stupid things I regret, but I've managed to keep my integrity. Which is important because integrity is fragile. Break it once and it's gone forever.

~ Jonathan Heatt

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disrespectful. Man and woman should strive to bring values to the table that are worthy of mutual honor. Mature men won't tolerate nonsense, but baby-boys will.

~ T.f. Hodge

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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

~ Oprah Winfrey

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