Personal Integrity Quotes

• Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Important, Want

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• On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Fate, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.62, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Integrity, Kind, Considerate

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• In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Integrity, Honor, World

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Believe, Greatness

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• Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

  Lierre Keith

  Integrity, Tasks, Activist

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.265, PM Press

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• Say only what you mean.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Integrity, Mean, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself... The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.

  Ashley Judd

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Giving

  "Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance" by Ashley Judd, www.thedailybeast.com. April 9, 2012.

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

  Samuel DiPiazza

  Business, Integrity, Foundation

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• I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Integrity, People, Benches

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985”, p.1270, Best Books on

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• Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, Covenant, Trustworthiness

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• I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.

  Verghese Kurien

  Integrity, Effort, Important

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• Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Educational, Integrity, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Careers, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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• You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

  Joseph Conrad

  Integrity, Men, Honor

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1154, e-artnow

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• When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

  Jane Addams

  Integrity, Character, May

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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• High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to see life and others afresh, as though through the eyes of a child, to learn how to tap into our intuition and visualization, as a powerful means of using our inner knowing to “make a difference.” It demands that we cease to seek refuge in what we know and constantly explore and learn from what we do not know. It demands that we live the questions rather than the answers.

  Danah Zohar

  Children, Powerful, Integrity

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• For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Integrity, Party

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.

  Kirk Cameron

  Integrity, Anchors, Hollywood

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