Top 200 Integrity Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”

— Warren Buffett

52. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone

53. “Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

— Marcus Aurelius

54. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass

55. “Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

— Michael Josephson

56. “Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.”

— John Wooden

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

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Lennie Bennett

59. “You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.”

— John C. Maxwell

60. “Integrity is important in building relationships and is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success, such as respect, dignity, and trust, are built.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Marvin Williams

62. “Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.”

— Miguel Ruiz

63. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

64. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

— Henry Ford

65. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide

66. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”

— Warren Buffett

67. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

68. “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”

— John Wooden

69. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”

— Warren Buffett

70. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.”

— Joel Osteen

71. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

72. “When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”

— Napoleon Hill

73. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Jack Welch

75. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

76. “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

— Samuel Johnson

77. “Be as you wish to seem.”

— Socrates

78. “Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.”

— Charlie Munger

79. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

80. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

— Billy Graham

81. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

82. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

83. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

84. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand

86. “No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity.”

— Abdul Kalam

87. “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

88. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

— John Wooden

89. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

90. “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”

— Anthony of Padua

91. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

92. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

93. “Be who you are and be that well.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

94. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

95. “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

— Rick Warren

96. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

97. “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”

— Steve Maraboli

98. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

— Mark Twain

99. “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

100. “To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

— Confucius