“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
— Maya Angelou
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
— C. S. Lewis
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
— Malcolm X
“Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.”
— Chris Karcher
“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”
— Arthur Freed
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”
— French Proverb
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
— David Starr Jordan
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”
— Nicole Guillaume
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”
— M.H. McKee
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.”
— Edward R. Murrow
“What is left when honor is lost?”
— Publilius Syrus
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
— Warren Buffett
“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
— Thomas Paine
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
— Samuel Johnson
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
— Confucius
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
— Aristotle
“Integrity never goes out of style.”
— Jim George
“Lead your life so you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”
— Will Rogers
“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
— Alan Simpson
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
— Bob Marley
“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
“Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.”
— Charles R. Swindoll
“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.”
— Lord Milner
“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”
— Tom Peters
“Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
— David Crockett
“You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.”
— Betty White
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
“Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”
— Colin Powell
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
— Ayn Rand
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”
— Tony Dungy
“The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”
— Peter F. Drucker
“There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.”
— Marvin Williams
“Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.”
— Lennie Bennett
“In the end, your integrity is all you’ve got.”
— Jack Welch
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