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Integrity Quotes
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
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"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."
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"I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity."
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"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
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"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
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"When you take the high road to living a virtuous life, you are fortified by knowing that regardless of what life throws your way or what storms may rage, you are grounded in goodness. In this, you secure not only your own integrity, but you secure it in the eyes others."
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"Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else."
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"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
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"Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society."
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"Think honestly. Think humbly. Think honorably. Think happily."
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"Tell me you're truth. I'm listening."
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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"Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication."
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"Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said."
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"On the whole the modern world has been conditioned to have a chip on its shoulder against devoutly religious people. I disagree with this in some instances - particularly in, believe it or not, matters of integrity. Deep down I often rather believe the man who honestly thinks - or better yet even, prefers - that he has an omnipotent Judge breathing down his neck, holding his every word and his every move accountable, than the man who much like his modern peers, and ironically enough, claims or wishes to bask in complete independence. As it appears actually, the former is more free of guilt than the latter."
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"But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. - Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister."
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
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"A good reputation is better than great riches."
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"You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own."
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"Your character determines how many followers you will have."
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"As clichA© as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence."
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"Your own humility endorses your integrity!"
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"It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one."
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"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
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"A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? "I am Pure Soul, it is that Self."
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"Emotionally intelligent people hold themselves accountable for their behavior, failures, decisions, and successes."
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"1. "Being able to depend on a person's integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on trust, both in business and in life."
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"Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving."
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"What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth."
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"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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