Top 200 Integrity Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

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2. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

— C. S. Lewis

3. “Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.”

— Chris Karcher

4. “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”

— Malcolm X

5. “Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”

— Arthur Freed

6. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

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7. “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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8. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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9. “Image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.”

— John C. Maxwell

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10. “There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

— French Proverb

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11. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

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12. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

— David Starr Jordan

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13. “Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”

— Nicole Guillaume

14. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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15. “A great man is always willing to be little.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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16. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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17. “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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18. “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.”

— Albert Einstein

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19. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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20. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”

— M.H. McKee

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21. “The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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22. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.”

— Edward R. Murrow

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23. “What is left when honor is lost?”

— Publilius Syrus

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24. “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

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25. “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

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26. “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

— Thomas Paine

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27. “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

— Samuel Johnson

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28. “Integrity never goes out of style.”

— Jim George

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29. “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

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30. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

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31. “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

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32. “Lead your life so you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”

— Will Rogers

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33. “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

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34. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”

— Alan Simpson

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35. “Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

36. “Real integrity stays in place whether the test is in adversity or prosperity.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

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37. “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

38. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”

— Tom Peters

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39. “Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead.”

— David Crockett

40. “You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.”

— Betty White

41. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

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42. “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

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43. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

— Ayn Rand

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44. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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45. “Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”

— Tony Dungy

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46. “The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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47. “Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.”

— Zig Ziglar

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48. “Do the right thing because it is right.”

— Immanuel Kant

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49. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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50. “Work with integrity and succeed with integrity.”

— Abdul Kalam

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