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
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