Integrity Quotes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

~ Johnathan Jena

If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!

~ Beth Ramsay

Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Do not drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people's ancient superstitions, unbeliefs, aggressions, culture and crap! No! Be a flare! We were born that way. Born perfectly happy being inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, cry, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream... We are, in essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we're born, how we grow and develop. I choose to inconvenience the irrational.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

~ Zig Ziglar

The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many 'D' students running around with high social status gained from their seemingly important positions. Integrity and proficiency are not a given. These qualities can only be proven over time.

~ Gary Hopkins

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

~ C.s. Lewis

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest, most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.

~ Erin Bowman

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

~ Roberto Bolaño

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that's how it was. I just ran a grocery, she thought. I don't want this. I ain't the one to make the world right.

~ Alan Heathcock

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

~ Orrin Woodward

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

~ R.m. Ford

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

~ Rich Disilvio

Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.

~ Andrena Sawyer

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived relationship with God as Father, however, will inwardly want to pray and therefore will pray even though nothing on the outside is pressing them to do so. They pursue it even during times of spiritual dryness, when there is no social or experiential payoff.

~ Timothy J. Keller

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

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 Nelson Bradley

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

~ Mary Connealy

So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

~ Sharon Shinn

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't.~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon

~ Andrew Ashling

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

~ Jon Hunstman

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can't, after all, go so far afield as we might,' he hesitated, 'yes, as we might.'Eastman looked at him sourly. 'Cavenaugh, when you've practiced law in New York for twelve years, you find that people can't go far in any direction, except-' He thrust his forefinger sharply at the floor.'Even in that direction, few people can do anything out of the ordinary. Our range is limited. Skip a few baths, and we become personally objectionable. The slightest carelessness can rot a man's integrity or give him ptomaine poisoning. We keep up only be incessant cleansing operations, of mind and body. What we call character, is held together by all sorts of tacks and strings and glue. (Consequences)

~ Willa Cather

Failing to fulfill your responsibilities is not only a reflection of your priorities, but also your integrity. Your actions define your character not the words you utter.

~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

~ Socrates

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

~ John Kennedy Toole

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret afterwards + wish undone (or that we know beforehand we will regret after). So it`s no excuse to say, ``I didn`t mean to do it. I was tempted + I couldn`t resist.`` All one can honestly say is, ``I did it. I`m sorry I did it.``- Reborn

~ Susan Sontag

The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies “wholeness.” These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. “Am I whole?” “Are there parts of my character that are lacking?

~ Josh Hatcher

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

~ Bertolt Brecht

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.

~ Hyrum W. Smith

Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.

~ David Lagercrantz

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the why that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns

~ Bluenscottish

People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic integrity and us getting there together. But the minute you’re asked to back your promises up with some strength of character, you come apart. You say you love good music, but you can’t listen to it that carefully if you treat people like this.

~ Guy Mankowski

You can never go wrong by doing what’s right.

~ Paul T. Clark