Integrity Quotes

Most popular integrity quotes

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.

character morals

Integrity has no need of rules. - Albert Camus quote.
Integrity has no need of rules.

morals character

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

knowledge

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. - Gordon Parks quote.
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

authenticity be yourself

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity. - Samuel Richardson quote.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.

calamity

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

conscience

This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. - Freya Stark quote.
This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

excellence

It has always seemed to me that the test of the integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe quote.
It has always seemed to me that the test of the integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain.
Sissela Bok Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

trust

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself than straightforward and simple integrity in another. - C. C. Colton quote.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. - Erich Fromm quote.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
Erich Fromm The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. - John W. Gardner quote.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor.
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. - Thomas Jefferson quote.
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Sin is a queer thing.  It isn't the breaking of divine commandments.  It is the breaking of one's own integrity. - D. H. Lawrence quote.
Sin is a queer thing.  It isn't the breaking of divine commandments.  It is the breaking of one's own integrity.

sin

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves.  We see it only in others. - Madelein K. L'Engle quote.
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves.  We see it only in others.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. - Don Marquis quote.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. - Molière quote.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.  Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. - Tom Peters quote.
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
Tom Peters The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations
A house can have integrity, just like a person. - Ayn Rand quote.
A house can have integrity, just like a person.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

success

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Integrity pays, but not in cash. - Jennifer Stone quote.
Integrity pays, but not in cash.
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. - Eudora Welty quote.
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
You don't just luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White If You Ask Me (And of Curse You Won’t)
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. - Zig Ziglar quote.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar Refining Your Style: Learning from Respected Communicators

persuasion

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quote.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

leadership

Qualities of good character and integrity make an enormous difference in achieving success.

character