Integrity Quotes - Page 34

• I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Artistic, Compromise, Artistic Integrity

  "Madonna: Truth or Dare". Documentary, 1991.

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• Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.

  Michael Mullen

  Country, Sacrifice, Should Have

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. December 2, 2010.

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• There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

  Tom Jones

  Voice, Ambassadors, Sound

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• It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

  Jordan Spieth

  Games, Referee, Respect Each Other

  Jordan Spieth – Full 2015 Masters Winning Press Conference, www.golfbytourmiss.com.

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• Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Law, Judgment

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Men, Perfection

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• Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Mind

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• The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.

  Michael Josephson

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Honor

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• Sometimes integrity is a punch in the face.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Faces, Sometimes

  Leslie Nielsen, David Fisher (1994). “Leslie Nielsen the naked truth”, Pocket

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• A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

  James M. Kouzes

  Home, Self, Leader

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.

  Billy Graham

  Together, Glue, Way

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mean, Promise, Said

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• Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

  Denis Waitley

  Finding Yourself, Ethics, Morality

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• Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, United States, World

  "Civilization versus Barbarism?". Interview with M. Junaid Alam, chomsky.info. December 17, 2004.

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• Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Facts, Process, Loses

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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• Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity.

  Chris Johnson

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• If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.

  Neil Burger

  Character, Journey, Opposites

  Source: collider.com

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• When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

  Mark McGrath

  Dollars, Labels, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

  David Wolpe

  Country, Believe, Soul

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Creativity, Unique

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• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Mean, Greatness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

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• Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

  Warren Buffett

  Passion, Focus, Brain

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• In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

  James Cash Penney

  Views, Plus, Point Of View

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• A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

  Peter Shepherd

  Sacrifice, People, Unnecessary

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• Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.

  David A. Bednar

  Fashion, Honesty, Heart

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