Integrity Quotes

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde, Lord Henry, in the

The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Denis Waitley

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Denis Waitley

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Jane Austen

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Albert Schweitzer

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Publilius Syrus

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Plutarch

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

George McGovern

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Dorothy Thompson

Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

William Hazlitt

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

Captain J. G. Stedman

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

Henry Miller