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Quotes About Integrity

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
~ William Penn
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
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T. S. Eliot
What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.
~ Daniel Snyder
Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.
~ Scottie Pippen
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
~ Mark McGwire
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
~ Winston Churchill
I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that.
~ Brian Dennehy
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.
~ Tim Cook
I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'
~ Judy Sheindlin
Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
~ Monte Irvin
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
~ W. Edwards Deming
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
~ Carl Schurz
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
~ Amy Heckerling
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
~ Antonin Scalia
If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
~ Fred Korematsu
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
~ Thomas Huxley
You can't satisfy everybody. If you do, you're probably doing something wrong.
~ Mick Foley
Where I'm from, if you can't see who and what is good for you and who is bad for you, you could end up with the wrong friends, in places where you don't need to be, with people that you didn't need to bring into your house, giving your trust to those who could turn on you.
~ Santan Dave