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Integrity Quotes


"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."


"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."


"We have now recently launched the national integrity plan."


"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act."


"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."


"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"


"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."


"If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut."


"Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep."


"Also, I'm not going to bedevastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say thehonest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- she says,but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks toofast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, itnever becomes true."


"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."


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


"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."


"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."


"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."


"You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously."


"Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken."


"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."


"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."


"Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth."


"I shall not waste any of our brief time together flattering your ego, as others have done before, with all this nonsense about skills and talents that do not help, or worse, that you do not actually possess."


"Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children."


"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."


"If you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth."


"I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee."


"Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake."


"Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep."


"There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity."


"Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren't your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don't you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do."


"Commitment is an act, not a word."


"There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be."
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