“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.”

— Albert Einstein

“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.”

— Zig Ziglar

“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