Integrity Quotes

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Sir Walter Raleigh

A little integrity is better than any career

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise

Integrity is not something that you should have to think about...nor consider doing...but something in the heart that is already done.

Doug Firebaugh

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Peter Scotese

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Henry David Thoreau

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 up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Napoleon Hill

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none.

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The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

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It is far better to be trusted and respected that it is to be liked.

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Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me.

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A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.

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Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is

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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Gamaliel Bradford

Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.

Don Galer

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

Morris Mandel

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Thomas Henry Huxley

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

Joseph Conrad