Top 200 Integrity Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”

— Potter Stewart

152. “There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

— Oscar Wilde

153. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.”

— Michelle Obama

154. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

155. “Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

156. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

— Zig Ziglar

157. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

— Sophocles

158. “You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”

— Nicholas Sparks

159. “Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

160. “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

161. “Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.”

— Chanakya

162. “When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.”

— Ayn Rand

163. “Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”

— Zig Ziglar

164. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

— Spencer Johnson

165. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

166. “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

— Harper Lee

167. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

168. “But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.”

— Immanuel Kant

169. “Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”

— Oswald Chambers

170. “If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”

— Margaret Thatcher

171. “Integrity has no need of rules.”

— Albert Camus

172. “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

— James E. Faust

173. “To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.”

— Epictetus

174. “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”

— Parker J. Palmer

175. “Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

— Joel Osteen

176. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln

177. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

178. “Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.”

— Michael J. Fox

179. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

180. “If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

181. “A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.”

— Nelson Mandela

182. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

183. “Don’t lie to me. Don’t deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

184. “Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right.”

— Russell M. Nelson

185. “When they go low, we go high.”

— Michelle Obama

186. “I would rather lose money than trust.”

— Robert Bosch

187. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.”

— J. C. Watts

188. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

189. “Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.”

— Charlie Munger

190. “Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

191. “It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”

— Brian Tracy

192. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

193. “Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

— Rudyard Kipling

194. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

195. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

— Charlie Munger

196. “I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”

— Charlie Munger

197. “Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

198. “When you borrow a man’s car, always return it with a tank of gas.”

— Charlie Munger

199. “Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.”

— Cyrus the Great

200. “Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”

— Socrates