Truth Integrity Quotes

#1. Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

David Mitchell

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Jocelyn Murray

#6. Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

Molly Friedenfeld

#7. Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

Rich DiSilvio

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

Roberto Bolano

#9. 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

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

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Abigail Adams

#13. 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

#14. You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

John C. Maxwell

#15. Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.

Christopher Markus

#16. Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

A.D. Posey

#17. 'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

Jessy Schram

#18. 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

#19. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#20. When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

Royden G. Derrick

#21. Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

John Wanamaker

#22. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Ruiz

#23. We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

Molly Friedenfeld

#24. 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

#25. I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

Stephen Schneider

#26. He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity - the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#28. Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing.

Sameh Elsayed

#29. 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

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Criss Jami

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

Criss Jami

#33. To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

Ayn Rand

#35. 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

#36. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

T.F. Hodge

#37. Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off.

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. A man of integrity speaks the truth with love rather than worrying about being nice.

Rick Johnson

#39. The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

Thomas Malthus

#40. Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#41. Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.

Molly Friedenfeld

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

Ken Blanchard

#43. 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

#44. When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.

Molly Friedenfeld

#45. Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Benjamin E. Mays

#46. Fear nothing but your conscience.

Suzy Kassem

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul's choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

Molly Friedenfeld

#50. True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

Will Jelbert

#51. Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.

Edwin Meese

#52. Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.

Russell M. Nelson

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

Charles Krauthammer

#57. Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

George McGovern

#58. Our fears would disappear when we accept the truth and confront our challenges with integrity.

Mayank Sharma

#59. It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Henry David Thoreau

#60. Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.

Lauren Handel Zander

#61. Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#62. Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#63. I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Michael Tippett

#64. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

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

Czeslaw Milosz

#66. There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Plato

#67. If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.

Leonard N. Stern

#68. You must be more convinced and dedicated to the integrity of the truth.

Sunday Adelaja

#69. 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

#70. We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters ... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules ... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Michelle Obama

#71. When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.

Shannon L. Alder

#72. I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.

The Great Pacifist

#73. Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

Steven Weber

#74. When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.

Molly Friedenfeld

#75. Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Confucius

#76. We compromise too easily when life becomes difficult. Most sacrifice individuality and integrity without a fight, although arrogance prevents seeing this truth.

Brendon Burchard

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

Spencer Johnson

#78. It is an important part of our life's experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#79. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Charles R. Swindoll

#80. Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Lily Tomlin

#81. You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#82. If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#83. 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

#84. But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

John Milton

#85. Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Heraclitus

#86. 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

#87. When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Sam Harris

#88. The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

Robert Peate

#89. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#90. The best connections are the ones who are like-minded and who value quality, integrity, truth, passion for life and the desire share-it-forward while leaving an unprecedented legacy in the world."

-Steven Cuoco

Steven Cuoco

#91. One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

#92. Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.

Pawan Mishra

#93. Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

Molly Friedenfeld

#94. Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.

Sunday Adelaja

#95. When "doctrinal integrity" (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot rightfully be called the truth.

Ronnie McBrayer

#96. 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

#97. The greatest roadblock to Satan's work is the Christian who, above all else, lives for God, walks with integrity, is filled with the Spirit, and is obedient to God's truth.

Billy Graham

#98. 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

#99. The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior
or lack of integrity
a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain. - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)

Tara Leigh Cobble

#100. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams