Quotes About Integrity and honesty

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"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."

— Warren Buffett

"Honesty is very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people."

— Warren Buffett

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

— Mario Cuomo

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity."

— Charles Swindoll

"A half-truth is a whole lie."

— Yiddish Proverb

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."

— John D. MacDonald

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

— Dalai Lama

"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them."

— Brene Brown

"Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got."

— Janis Joplin

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

— Margaret Thatcher

"Be always sure you're right, then go ahead."

— Davy Crocket

"Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Integrity has no need of rules."

— Albert Camus

"Energy, Intelligence and Integrity are the key criteria for success."

— Conor Neill

"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."

— Dwight D Eisenhower

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking."

— J.C. Watts

"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

— Mark Twain

"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

— R. C. Samsel

"Do you want to be honest or dishonest if you are seeking wealth?"

— Warren buffet

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honour, I lose myself."

— William Shakespeare

"Integrity is about being honest and having strong moral principles. It may also be described as the ability to act in ways that are consistent with the values, beliefs, and moral principles we hold. Integrity is about making good choices. It is doing the right things for the right reason."

— Unknown

"Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man, grasping all, loses everything."

— James Allen

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."

— Francis Bacon

"It is granted only to the heart that abounds with integrity, trust, generosity and love to realize true prosperity. The heart that is not possessed of these qualities cannot know prosperity, for prosperity, like happiness, is not an outward possession, but an inward realization."

— James Allen

"Integrity is not about doing what's easy or what's popular, it's doing what's right."

— Bob Gass, author, UCB

"Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud."

— Sophocles

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

— Oprah Winfrey

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

— Malcolm Forbes

"Those with integrity are guided by a set of principles that empowers them to behave consistently to a high standard. The principles of integrity are virtues, such as dependability, honesty, loyalty compassion, objectivity, respect and trust."

— Mark O'Hara

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

— Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

— Albert Einstein

"When I do good, I feel good.' When I do bad, I feel bad."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Reputation is the key to success. You have to be loyal to your customers."

— Li Ka Shing

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty"

— Plato

"The time is always right to do what is right."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greedy man may become a millionaire, but he will always be wretched, and mean, and poor, and will even consider himself outwardly poor so long as there is a man in the world who is richer than himself, whilst the upright, the open-handed and loving will realize a full and rich prosperity, even though their outward possessions may be small."

— James Allen

"Courage, honesty, and respect are integral part of integrity"

— anonymous

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

— William Shakespeare

"He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has."

— James Allen

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

— Confucius

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

— Oliver Cromwell