Top 200 Integrity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Trust is the byproduct of integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

102. “Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”

— John Wooden

103. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

— Confucius

104. “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

— James Baldwin

105. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

106. “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact, sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.”

— David Cottrell

107. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

108. “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

— William Penn

109. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

110. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

111. “You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.”

— Simon Sinek

112. “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

113. “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

— Douglas Adams

114. “Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.”

— Sophie Scholl

115. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

— William Shakespeare

116. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.”

— Zig Ziglar

117. “Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.”

— Suzy Kassem

118. “Integrity is the first step to true greatness.”

— Charles Simmons

119. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

120. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

121. “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

122. “Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

— Zig Ziglar

123. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

124. “Be content to seem what you really are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

125. “Good values are easier caught than taught.”

— Zig Ziglar

126. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”

— Brian Tracy

127. “Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”

— Harold S. Kushner

128. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

— John F. Kennedy

129. “Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth.”

— Jay Abraham

130. “Exercise integrity in the moment of truth.”

— Stephen R. Covey

131. “The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity. For this reason, he has integrity. The person of inferior integrity never loses sight of his integrity; For this reason, he lacks integrity.”

— Lao Tzu

132. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”

— Confucius

133. “Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.”

— David Jeremiah

134. “Do what you say you will do.”

— James M. Kouzes

135. “Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don’t worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don’t worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.”

— Confucius

136. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

137. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”

— Richard P. Feynman

138. “One person of integrity can make a difference.”

— Elie Wiesel

139. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

— Mwai Kibaki

140. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

141. “You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”

— Warren Buffett

142. “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

143. “The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

— Confucius

144. “Honor your commitments with integrity.”

— Les Brown

145. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

146. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

— Confucius

147. “I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

— Lou Holtz

148. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

— George Washington

149. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

— Theodore Roosevelt

150. “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn