Integrity's Quotes

#1. Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

Alma Guillermoprieto

#3. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Andy Stanley

#4. There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.

Neil Tennant

#5. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#6. The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion.

David R. Hawkins

#7. 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

#8. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Jocelyn Murray

#9. Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

Zephyr Teachout

#10. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane

#11. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Ilchi Lee

#12. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Bob Barr

#13. A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Richard Carmona

#14. Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life's table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone's personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.

Gloria Feldt

#15. Excellence calls for character ... integrity ... fairness ... honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Price Pritchett

#16. There's no way around it. Integrity is everything. You either have it or you just don't!

Timothy Pina

#17. It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

William Shakespeare

#19. Courage
judgment
integrity
dedication
these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State ... And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.

John F. Kennedy

#20. As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

R.C. Sproul

#22. It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Gary Hamel

#23. I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.

Patrick Wang

#24. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Ashly Lorenzana

#25. The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body.

Frederick Lenz

#26. All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Denis Diderot

#27. Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.

Ryan Jarman

#28. Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

Germaine Greer

#29. Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Walter Cronkite

#30. 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

#31. One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.

Peter Landesman

#32. Brand integrity is the ability to present one's brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand's promise).

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#33. Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

Evan Thompson

#34. I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.

Aeriel Miranda

#35. Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown.

Mick Herron

#36. It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Marilynne Robinson

#37. The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Al Jourgensen

#38. The wise do not buy into other people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person's public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul's worth.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Lindsey Buckingham

#40. When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

Bobbi Brown

#41. 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

#42. Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.

Billy Graham

#43. 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

#44. It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Debra Wilson

#45. 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

#46. Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?

Cornel West

#47. I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

Gordon Strachan

#48. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

Michael D. O'Brien

#49. I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Shirley Maclaine

#50. The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.

Stephen Moyer

#51. To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#52. I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.

Bill Kreutzmann

#53. That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#54. For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, that's the way I want to live my life. It moved me.

Tom Cruise

#55. God's standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.

Billy Graham

#56. There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

Terence McKenna

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Joe Biden

#60. It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.

Wynton Marsalis

#61. Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff ... I really don't get you.
Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime

Hiromu Arakawa

#62. America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10 year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

Jay Leno

#63. Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

Charles Bartlett Johnson

#64. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.

Sanober Khan

#65. Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#66. 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.

#67. 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

#68. Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

Howard G. Hendricks

#69. Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

R.M. Ford

#70. Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Michael Crichton

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

Jordan Spieth

#72. Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

Tony Campolo

#73. The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man.

Virginia Woolf

#74. I don't understand exactly what's going on, but Goodreads shouldn't be deleting reviews, period. People are smart enough to look at them on their own and make up their mind, and deleting reviews undermines the integrity of the site.

Brett J. Talley

#75. I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.

Emily VanCamp

#76. 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

#77. Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#78. There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

George Foreman

#79. I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Thomas Jefferson

#80. I'm not sure I can do this anymore." "My poor Adam. Always believing you are the valiant one, that right will triumph in the end. It's not always like that. The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force.

Anonymous

#81. At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

James Thurber

#82. Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

Salman Rushdie

#83. I focus on what's really important in life. Quality rather than appearance...ethics rather than rules...integrity rather than domination...knowledge rather than achievement...serenity rather than acquisitions.

Wayne Dyer

#84. What's the secret to success? It's no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

Dave Thomas

#85. 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

#86. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

#87. Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.

Farshad Asl

#88. A man's integrity and novelty is his identity.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#89. They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.

Lou Brock

#90. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

Ralph Chaplin

#91. I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Joey McIntyre

#92. True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

Hope Solo

#93. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Bertrand Russell

#94. In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world's needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

Debbie Ford

#95. Leading people is the opposite of trying to control them; it's about gaining their trust through your integrity, developing their potential through your partnership, and motivating them through your affirmation.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#96. See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#97. There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

Sheryl Crow

#98. 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

#99. Integrity ... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

Sam Storms

#100. Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

Warren Buffett