Top 100 Integrity Man Quotes
#1. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#2. I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity.
Leonard Seet
#3. The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Wendell Phillips
#4. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
Henry Beston
#5. When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Confucius
#6. (I really believe that a building is a unit, not a city, so that city planning should not control all buildings. Because a house can be the product of one man, but a city cannot. And nothing collective can have the unity and integrity of a "unit.")
Ayn Rand
#7. Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
Charles Dickens
#8. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
John Tillotson
#10. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?
Ayn Rand
#11. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#12. It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Publilius Syrus
#13. Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people,
Paul Martin
#14. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#15. A rich man is an honest man
no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
#16. 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
#17. This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
Angie Stone
#19. The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.
Glenda Green
#20. A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.
Socrates
#21. A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
Gaston Bachelard
#22. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#23. 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
#24. If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
Bill McCartney
#25. Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
Ayn Rand
#26. Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
Ayn Rand
#27. She thought about all the things she would like to say to him. Thank you for wanting to defend me. Thank you for thinking Rupert is a rogue. Thank you for being a man of integrity. Oh, Lord Hamlin, if you were mine, I'd make you so happy. Rose stifled a laugh at the stupid, outrageous thought.
Melanie Dickerson
#29. A man of integrity speaks the truth with love rather than worrying about being nice.
Rick Johnson
#30. He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.
Jorge Luis Borges
#31. A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
John Banville
#32. There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.
Marvin Williams
#33. A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.
Nikki Rowe
#34. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.
John Donne
#35. 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
#36. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
Laurence Sterne
#37. [Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.
Billy Graham
#38. A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
of others.
Albert Pike
#40. You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
Grenville Kleiser
#41. It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. 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
#44. I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.
Phil Keaggy
#45. Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain
Philip Wylie
#46. Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
Bill Cobbs
#47. The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively
Bob Marley
#48. Rakitin was dishonest and was decidedly unaware of it; that, on the contrary, knowing that he wouldn't steal money from the table, he ultimately considered himself a man of the highest integrity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#49. The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work
Shiv Khera
#50. In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
#51. Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.
Chuck Grassley
#52. A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!
L. Michelle
#53. It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
Henry David Thoreau
#54. What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
Jesus
#55. It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
Confucius
#57. The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
#58. I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
Thomas Jefferson
#59. The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.
Gary Ferguson
#60. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
#61. Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
Orson Scott Card
#62. Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
Andrew Craig
#63. The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!
Avra Amar Filion
#64. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest - health, integrity, purity (if you like) - is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
Albert Camus
#65. If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth
any man of integrity.
Ayn Rand
#66. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucius
#67. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...
Brandon Sanderson
#68. The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.
Summer Glau
#69. The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. An upright man is always worth beholding - but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.
Thomas Watson
#71. If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.
Harry Ransom
#72. To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
Henry David Thoreau
#73. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#74. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
#75. A man should never measure his wealth in achievements or personal riches, but rather by his love for her. She is more than a woman; she is a queen. She is more than the world; she is your universe.
Chris Flores
#76. There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong ... A stiff apology is a second insult.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#77. The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.
Gautama Buddha
#78. Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
Maira Kalman
#79. It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
Jane Austen
#80. A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold
#81. Self-respect, courage, and integrity look good ona man.
Robert Glover
#82. The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
Solomon
#83. For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
Dorothy Day
#84. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.
Rene Daumal
#85. But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Sidney Poitier
#86. A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.
Ayn Rand
#87. There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
#88. No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid
#89. Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
Patrice Motsepe
#90. I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;
Benjamin Franklin
#91. Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#92. The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.
Ann Whitman
#94. I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sidney Sheldon
#95. Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.
C.S. Pacat
#97. Looks were all well and good - but if a man didn't have courage, a kind heart, and integrity, he had nothing worthwhile. Alvarr had those in spades.
Cate Rowan
#98. My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'
Tagg Romney
#99. A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. [My] pillar of support through life ... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
Thomas Jefferson
