Top 60 Integrity Quotes (2023 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

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

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

— French Proverb

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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

— Publilius Syrus

24. “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

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes

25. “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

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

28. “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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29. “Integrity never goes out of style.”

— Jim George

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

— Aristotle

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

— Will Rogers

32. “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

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

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

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

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

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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

47. “It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”

— Peter F. Drucker

48. “Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.”

— Lennie Bennett

49. “There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.”

— Marvin Williams

50. “In the end, your integrity is all you’ve got.”

— Jack Welch