Integrity Quotes - Page 7

• If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

  William Arnot

  Character, Army, Hypocrisy

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• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Lying, Safety

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Lying, Lies In Love

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, Essence, Manifestation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.108, Mango Media Inc.

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• It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Important, Right Thing

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• There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Character, Government, Eggs

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• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Confidence, Honesty

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.113

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

  Socrates

  Honesty, Character, Evil

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• Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, Believe, Reality

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.75, Modern Library

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Change, Happiness, Appreciation

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• Gary Tuchman, he can't believe it! He's from the New York-Washington axis, New York-Washington corridor. He's from CNN. The only liar here is Donald Trump. James Comey is the Second Coming right now. Comey is an angel. Comey is the savior. Comey is the individual of mass integrity that's gonna destroy this pig, Donald Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liars, Believe, Angel

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Ethics, Individual

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

  Steven Seagal

  People, Trying, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Money Power, Compromise

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• When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.

  Hal Elrod

  Regret, Commitment, Frustration

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• A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

  Russell B. Long

  Loyalty, Government, People

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• A man should be upright, not kept upright.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Military, Lying

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (5), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hands, Needs, Gloves

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.75, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

  Elvis Presley

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

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• Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Law, Intellectual

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Done, Shows

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• Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Stars, Fire, Sea

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