Quotes About Honesty Integrity

#1. Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

John McCain

#2. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.

Cesar Millan

#3. Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

#4. I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you'll be fine.

Cory Hardrict

#5. I wanted to give people the ability once again to realize that they can still dream, but it has to be a new American dream that's based in honesty, integrity, and security - a dream that allows you to sleep at night, a dream that is attainable and allows you to stand in your truth.

Suze Orman

#6. All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.

Usha Uthup

#7. Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

Graham Spanier

#8. The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Andy Williams

#9. What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class.

Martina Mcbride

#10. [Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

George W. Bush

#11. What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

Bernie Brillstein

#12. Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

#13. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Short

#15. Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect

Anne McCaffrey

#16. Truth, honesty, integrity, he said. "And loyalty. Above truth, honesty, and integrity, I would demand loyalty. Loyalty above all. You have to swear an oath."

"I can never put loyalty above truth honesty and integrity. . . don't demand loyalty over truth. Don't ever do that.

Garth Stein

#17. Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.

Michael E. DeBakey

#18. The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and transform society by their prophetic witness.

Pope Francis

#19. It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Pope Francis

#20. Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

L.M. Fields

#21. People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

David A. Bednar

#22. Don't force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.

Pierre Ceresole

#23. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge

#24. 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

#25. Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

Dada Bhagwan

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

Price Pritchett

#27. I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Roberto Bolano

#28. Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

William Gaddis

#29. 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

#30. Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#32. I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

Andrew Sullivan

#33. There was corruption at every turn, and those who stood for honesty and integrity were more and more vulnerable, more and more isolated amongst the hordes of people who simply had no moral sense. And

Alexander McCall Smith

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#39. To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.

John O'Donohue

#40. 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

#41. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#42. 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

#43. Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Zig Ziglar

#44. Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

Michael Hyatt

#45. I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother

Hannah Milhous Nixon

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

Sanober Khan

#47. Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

Millen Livis

#48. A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Socrates

#49. Integrity, honesty, reverence toward God, avoidance of evil and consistent religious affection are graces that ought to characterize the servant of God. They are not developed instantly, but result from the consistently demonstrable growth of a "new creation"30 in Christ.

Whit Woodard

#50. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#51. If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!

Beth Ramsay

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Criss Jami

#56. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Criss Jami

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life ... all areas of life.

Zig Ziglar

#61. 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

#62. Was often told what I should do. He expected honesty and integrity in all aspects of life, but I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

Nicholas Sparks

#63. I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

Michael Skolnik

#64. Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Michel De Montaigne

#65. Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance - toward yourself!

Bryant McGill

#66. For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Arthur Peacocke

#67. Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#68. Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Ken Blanchard

#69. Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Sonia Johnson

#70. The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#71. Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#72. Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#73. But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

Mordecai Richler

#74. Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

William Bourke Cockran

#75. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

#76. 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

#77. I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Vijay Mallya

#78. The detective seemed to remember reading that advertisers used Scottish accents to suggest integrity and honesty. The

Robert Galbraith

#79. People do not trust the slick and polished. Instead, the objectives of media training should be to learn how to directly address difficult questions, how to avoid falling into media traps, and most importantly, how to accomplish the two previous tasks with honesty and integrity.

Jeff Ansell

#80. We have no relationship without honesty. - by Claude

Emily Giffin

#81. Show and prove to the world, to angels and to God, that you are on the side of truth and right, of honesty, purity and integrity, and that you are for God in His kingdom.

John Taylor

#82. I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

Amy Astorga

#83. In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#84. 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

#85. To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does ... When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right ... Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#86. How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Herta Muller

#87. Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Bobby Bowden

#88. Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Orrin Woodward

#89. God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

#90. We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

C.S. Lewis

#91. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czeslaw Milosz

#92. Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.

Gary Hopkins

#93. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

Roy Bennett

#94. People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

Richard A. Kidd

#95. An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#96. But if you stray too far on the side of distance and strictness, you end up hard and unapproachable. So you need to be open to unexpected things and you need to be accessible to those people who are honest and forthright with you, especially if they take risks trying to do what their heart dictates.

Alan McCluskey

#97. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#98. I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.

Erin Bowman

#99. Authenticity is hard to fake

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#100. We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.

Rajasaraswathii