Quotations similar to INTEGRITY - VALUES
Also see INTEGRITY AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. - Albert Einstein
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. - Thomas Carlyle
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs
A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. - Elmer G Letterman
Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical. - Zig Ziglar
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John Wooden
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself. - Napoleon Hill
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs
Better to live by universal truths than to sell one's soul to fashionable philosophies. - Philip Arnold
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
Character gives you the courage to do what's right, regardless of the consequences. - Unknown
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. - Bert Murray
Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Keshvan Nair
Each person must live their life as a model for others. - Rosa Parks
Every man's work is a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler
Good enough is the enemy of excellence. - Unknown
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. - Dr Kenneth Blanchard
If one is honest there is no need to remember. - Mark Twain
If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. - The Talmud
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird
If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. - Alan Simpson
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. - Mignon McLaughlin
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. - Zig Ziglar
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them. - Stephen Covey
Integrity is not so much a value in itself; it is rather the value that guarantees all the other values. - Unknown
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. - Don Galer
It is better to hold out a hand than to point a finger. - Unknown
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. - Albert Einstein
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith S Martin
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the race even starts. - George Eliot
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. - Thomas Huxley
It says something about our times that we rarely use the word sinful, except to describe a really good dessert. - Willard D. Ferrell
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward
It's not enough to know your truth, you must live it! - Stephen C Paul
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. - George Eliot
Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way. - Ralph Marston
Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. - Kant
Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. - Tony Robbins
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Jesse Jackson
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge
Nothing shows our character more than what we laugh at. - Goethe
Nothing teaches character better than generosity. - Jim Rohn
One who throws mud loses ground. - Fat Albert
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. - H Jackson Brown, Jr
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People hate the truth. Luckily the truth doesn't care. - Larry Winget
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. - Bob Moawad
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. - Henry Ford
Regardless of the situation, react with class. - H. Jackson Brown
Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right. - H Jackson Brown, Jr
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Respect is love in plain clothes. - Frankie Byrne
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn
Sincerity is the fulfillment of our own nature, and to arrive at it we need only follow our own true Self. - Tsu-Ssu
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. - Howard Cosell
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein
The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game. - Stephen Covey
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford
The more you stretch the truth, the easier it is to see through it. - Unknown
The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage. - Andrew Carnegie
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. - William Safire
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King Jr.
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - Norman Schwarzkopt
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
The world needs role models, instead of critics. - Denis Waitley
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. - George MacDonald
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. - Charles de Montesquieu
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucius
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. - Horace Mann
Waste no time debating what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb
When you judge others, you don’t define them, you define yourself. - Dr Wayne Dyer
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. - Zig Ziglar
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. - Confucius
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - Leo Aikman
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