Integrity Quotes

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

~ Simon Blackburn

He moved now, A tiny jerk of movement, and Elissa saw what she hadn't grasped before. that his fingers showed white and bloodless against he dark blue of his jacket, that his face was so tense that skin seemed to stretch taut over the bones beneath. Then he spoke, and she realized he wasn't calm. He was violently angry.WHY, Captain? he said, so much suppressed anger in his voice that it felt as if it would shatter something. I would have the the real question was WHY NOT?

~ Imogen Howson

He moved now, A tiny jerk of movement, and Elissa saw what she hadn't grasped before. that his fingers showed white and bloodless against he dark blue of his jacket, that his face was so tense that skin seemed to stretch taut over the bones beneath. Then he spoke, and she realized he wasn't calm. He was violently angry.WHY, Captain? he said, so much suppressed anger in his voice that it felt as if it would shatter something. I would have thought the the real question was WHY NOT?

~ Imogen Howson

It wasn't work. I played myself.

~ Dick Van Dyke

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

~ H.w. Brands

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

~ David Halberstam

let anyone using those weasel words “freedom of worship” know, they have “freedom of worship” in China and it is meaningless and it is vile. “Freedom of worship” says you may do what you like in that building on Sunday mornings or whenever you like, but when you come out you will bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state. That is the antithesis of what the Founders meant in guaranteeing “freedom of religion.

~ Eric Metaxas

I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I 'came out,' I mean that I resolved to never lie about my love for women, never deliberately pass for straight, and never deny a lover by calling her 'him.' To do so, I felt, would be to betray not only the women I desired, but my deepest self.My decision to quit meat was equally simple. Somehow, through the confluence of midseventies influences, I knew that vegetarianism was a particularly healthy way to eat. One day, quite suddenly, I realized: If I didn't need to eat meat to stay alive, then eating meat was killing for pleasure. I couldn't live with myself, wouldn't be the nonviolent person I believed myself to be, if I killed other beings--beings who had their own desires--merely to satisfy my desire for the taste of their flesh.Looking back, I see that both decisions, coming out and quitting meat, are about the interplay of desire and integrity. Sometimes integrity means being true to your desires, and sometimes integrity requires you to refuse your desires. I also notice that both decisions were about bodies and consent. A primary tenet of gay liberation is that what consenting people do with each other's bodies is nobody else's business. And, of course, eating meat is something you do to somebody else's body without their consent.

~ Pattrice Jones

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

~ Amit Ray

The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.

~ Hina Hashmi

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

~ Ron Paul

Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.

~ Scott K. Edinger

Your private self must become the same as your public self.

~ John Kuypers

Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life’s purpose.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

~ T.f. Hodge

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

~ Booth Tarkington

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

~ John Piper

There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.

~ Jack Campbell

[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but sees also that nothing will be lent to him unless he promises stoutly to repay it in definite time. He desires to make this promise, but he has still so much conscience as to ask himself: Is it not unlawful and inconsistent with duty to get out of a difficulty in this way? Suppose, however, that he resolves to do so, then the maxim of his action would be expressed thus: When I think myself in want of money, I will borrow money and promise to repay it, although I know that I never can do so. Now this principle of self-love or of one's own advantage may perhaps be consistent with my whole future welfare; but the question now is, Is it right? I change then the suggestion of self-love into a universal law, and state the question thus: How would it be if my maxim were a universal law? Then I see at once that it could never hold as a universal law of nature, but would necessarily contradict itself. For supposing it to be a universal law that everyone when he thinks himself in a difficulty should be able to promise whatever he pleases, with the purpose of not keeping his promise, the promise itself would become impossible, as well as the end that one might have in view in it, since no one would consider that anything was promised to him, but would ridicule all such statements as vain pretenses.

~ Immanuel Kant

Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with — that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. That’s what love is. It’s a recognition of singularity… And love is giving and giving and giving … not looking for any return. Until you do that, you can’t love.

~ Robert Graves

Knowing what’s right isn’t as important as doing what’s right.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!

~ Alexandre Dumas

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive, the filth you cannot see.

~ Jocelyn Murray

In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.

~ Dr. Matthew Loop

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.

~ Luis Carlos Montalván

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)

~ Pamela Clare

That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.

~ Raja Rayshouny

Treat others like your life depends on it.. because it does.

~ Vaeeshia Ratcliff-Davis

There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we're some kind of magician- the fight seems endless, so I look to the world for inspiration. I observe and I watch how others face adversity, some hide from it, some master each lesson and some create a life with it... Our lessons don't define us, our integrity to keep rising after every fall is.

~ Nikki Rowe