Top 100 Integrity Character Quotes
#1. There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."
Louis Adamic
#2. Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.
Thomas S. Monson
#3. No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.
Sidney Mohede
#4. True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.
Josei Toda
#5. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.
Mark Hopkins
#6. Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.
Todd Stocker
#7. your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind - you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.
Rick Warren
#8. Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.
Napoleon Hill
#9. When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
Linus Roache
#10. Excellence calls for character ... integrity ... fairness ... honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.
Price Pritchett
#11. Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.
Omar Nelson Bradley
#12. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.
Nicole Guillaume
#13. Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.
Steve Alford
#15. Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.
Savo Heleta
#16. Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
#17. Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
Morris Mandel
#18. Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#19. Chocolateism: Maintain your integrity even in the atmosphere of compromise, for it only takes one step in compromise, to start losing character.
Jacqueline R Banks
#20. Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
Jim DeMint
#21. Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
Billy Graham
#22. Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#23. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#24. Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager
#25. Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!
Kathy Ireland
#26. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
Larry Wilcox
#27. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Heraclitus
#28. Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing
Jim Rohn
#29. Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,
Kathleen Ann Harper
#30. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.
Sanober Khan
#31. Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here?
By Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#32. Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
J.C. Watts Jr.
#34. It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.
Ray Stevenson
#35. The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Roy L. Smith
#36. The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper
Elizabeth Moon
#37. What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.
Bill Courtney
#38. Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.
Karl Jaspers
#39. A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.
Tony Dungy
#41. All the things that make the character of an individual great, comes from the moral values he or she possesses. Those are the things that give such an individual, strength, vision, integrity, courage and understanding of how to behave toward others.
Ellen J. Barrier
#42. Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji
#43. Our capacity for production and enjoyment is ?a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
Stephen Covey
#45. You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.
Dave Calhoun
#46. What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.
Andy Serkis
#48. Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.
Jim Lee
#49. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte Bronte
#51. It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.
Habeeb Akande
#52. Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#53. When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.
Amber Heard
#54. Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.
Bertolt Brecht
#55. Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
Orrin Woodward
#56. I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.
Kenneth Lay
#57. I've never heard a eulogy about a person where they talk about the value of wealth and how much money the've left behind. They only talk about the character ,love, integrity, humour strength etc.
So why is it so important to some that they lose sight of everything else in life ?
Lou Silluzio
#58. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.
Norman Lock
#59. Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
Bert Murray
#60. I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
Lupita Nyong'o
#61. Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.
John Phillips
#62. What are we if we are not disciplined?
Rob Liano
#63. The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.
Orrin Woodward
#64. The root of the word "integrity" is "integer." It's a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies "wholeness." These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. "Am I whole?" "Are there parts of my character that are lacking?
Josh Hatcher
#65. I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.
James Hird
#66. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
#67. All revered spiritual leaders, political leaders, and diplomats, captains of industry, intellectuals, and winning generals exhibit genuine humility that empowers them to act with integrity and courage under the most distressing circumstances.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#68. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney.
Jodi Benson
#70. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
Jon Hunstman
#71. If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
Phyllis Bottome
#72. 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
#73. Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.
Paul Enenche
#74. 'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them.
Ted Cruz
#75. Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.
Delma Pryce
#76. The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
Allan Houston
#77. There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.
Cornel West
#78. Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.
Bob Bergen
#79. Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.
L. Michelle
#80. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
#81. Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference between an A minus and a B plus?
Ryan Quinn
#82. A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!
L. Michelle
#83. Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
#84. Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.
David A. Kolb
#85. We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.
Josh Fox
#87. Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.
Michael Josephson
#88. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to
Simon S. Tam
#89. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#91. What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.
Jodi Benson
#92. He walked out without his money.
The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#93. She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.
Stephen R. Covey
#95. 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
#96. No one can give you the strength of character necessary ... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
Adyashanti
#97. Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
#98. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#99. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#100. What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.
Adam Driver
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