Integrity Quotes

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

~ Warren Buffett

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

~ Thomas S. Monson

...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by doing so; he ought to inform them of the facts and convince them by argument. The jury does not sit to dispense justice as a favour, but to decide where justice lies; and the oath which they have sworn is not to show favour at their own discretion, but to return a just and lawful verdict... Therefore you must not expect me, gentlemen, to behave towards you in a way which I consider neither reputable nor moral nor consistent with my religious duty.

~ Socrates

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. -- Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote

~ Seth Grahame-Smith

We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, Does this show respect for GodPeopleSelf?

~ Pam Farrel

To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels

~ Miroslav Volf

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.

~ Thea Nishimori

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

~ L.m. Fields

​Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

It was time for me to make my stand, to display my integrity and dignity as a human worthful of respect. It was time for me to aggress the predatory lions and destroy them once and for all.

~ Yanan Melo

He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be

~ Todd Stocker

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.

~ Barbara De Angelis

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

~ Spencer Johnson

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

~ James E. Faust

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

~ Henry Adams

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

~ E.m. Forster

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

~ Albert Einstein

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

~ William Gaddis

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

~ G.k. Chesterton

A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

~ Orly Wahba

Your lies tells me as much about you, as do your truths.

~ Mekael Shane

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

~ C.s. Lewis

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

~ Ayn Rand

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

~ Jesus

We must return to the first question of philosophy: Do we want the truth?We indict others when they ignore it or twist it to their own agendas. But do we honestly want the truth above all else, even when the truth will cost us, even when we must reverse our stance and run the risk of others' derision? Are we willing to radically change our lives in order to pursue it? Are we willing to change, to let go of lifelong, cherished, character-bound beliefs? Are we willing to pay?

~ Daniel Ionson

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

~ Mordecai Richler

I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

~ Amy Astorga

Hollow Horn Bear knew that to be leader and adviser of his people he must be honest and reliable, and that his word once given in promise must never be taken back. He knew that he must be a man of will-power, standing for the right no matter what happened to him personally; that he must have strength of purpose, allowing no influence to turn him from doing what was best for the tribe. He must be willing to serve his people without thought of pay. He must be utterly unselfish and kind-hearted to the old and poor and stand ready to give to those in need. Above all, he must be unafraid to deal equal justice to all.

~ Luther Standing Bear

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

~ Fennel Hudson

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. Some secrets are best left concealed, Master. He shook his head. Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these... detours. Perhaps, just once, the uncovering should be left to someone else.Qui-Gon looked suddenly sad. No, Obi-Wan. Secrets must be exposed when found. Detours must be taken when encountered. And if you are the one who stands at the crossroads or the place of concealment, you must never leave it to another to act in your place.

~ Terry Brooks

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action, the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

~ Bob Barr

We live in a world full of duplicity.We are surrounded by people with duplicitous nature.They will be shooting arrows to question our honesty at every step we make.Therefore,it is our duty to protect ourselves by using our integrity as an armor and march forward, victoriously.

~ Indy Bissessur