Integrity Quotes

Here’s 37 quotes on the topic of INTEGRITY.  Although it doesn’t always sound like an interesting subject, when you read these you’ll come to remember that integrity is a virture that should never be forgotten.

Please read them slowly, copy some down, and paste them up in locations where you’ll see them.  And please leave a comment afterwards!  Here they are:

1. To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. -Confucious

2. To reach a great height a person needs to have a great depth. -Anonymous

3. My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. -Alfred Tennyson

4. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. -Albert Einstein

5. Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the mirror through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw

6. A ‘NO’ uttered in deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘YES’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -Mahatma Gandhi

7. The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. -Japanese Proverb

8. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. -Oscar Wilde

10. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -Joan Borysenko

11. I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. -Arthur Warwick

12. Humble yourself and you shall be honoured. Honour yourself and you shall be humbled. -Anonymous

13. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. -Janis Joplin

14. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. -Mary Kay Ash

15. If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. -Chinese Proverb

16. If you have integrity, nothing else matters. -Alan Simpson

17. If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? -Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. -Arthur Calwell

19. It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right. -Peter Drucker

20. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within me. -Mahatma Gandhi

21. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. -Oprah Winfrey

22. Six essential qualities are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, and charity. -William Menninger

23. I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else. -Arthur Ashe

24. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson

25. Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. -Thomas Jefferson

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

27. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -Marcus Aurelius

28. 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 (1875-1965)

29. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

30. The Lord doesn’t ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability. -Neal Maxwell

31. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. -Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

32. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. -Charles Simmons

33. No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public. -George McGovern

34. Your integrity will affect your destiny; don’t leave home without it. -Clarence E. Hodges

35. If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. -Frank Perdue

36. Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don’t. -Peter Scotese

37. There is always room for those who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they say they will. -Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

THERE YOU GO

Any thoughts when reading these that you’d like to share?  Which ones did you like or dislike?  Please leave a comment below.  (Oh…and please re-read the last blog post and leave a comment there too; no one has done that yet)

-Shawn