Quotes About Integrity

There are two types of liers...those that lie to others, and those that lie to themselves.

Truth guides what you say while love guides how, why, and when you say it. When love is the fertile soil, truth becomes a more fruitful seed.

Too many men want the freedoms, rewards, and privileges of manhood but only the responsibilities of boyhood. They want intimacy with their wives without loving them as God instructed. They want to be respected by their kids without investing time and discipline in them. They want a higher status at work without raising their own level of honor and integrity.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

Azt hiszem a bizalom a legsérülékenyebb az erények közül; mivel kényes, könnyen törik, és ha egyszer összetört, többé sohasem lehet helyreállítani.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

A person has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behavior…when he or she is whole, seamless, the same—inside and out. I call this "congruence." And it is congruence—not compliance—that will ultimately create credibility and trust.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. —MAHATMA GANDHI

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

The trust we have in people and in organizations comes, in part, from believing that they do care.

A leader doesn't need any credit…. He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. —ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS

The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders—customers, business partners, investors, and coworkers—is the key leadership competency of the new global economy.

Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical

If we can't trust ourselves, we'll have a hard time trusting others.

Never mind that young Bill had a less-than-spotless past when it came to computer freebieism, had been chastised for manipulating accounts on a time-sharing system as an eighth grader and investigated by Harvard University for running up hour upon hour of academic computer time while developing that very same for-profit BASIC.

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man.

Ultimately, though, you only know who a man is and what he believes by what he does. Not by what he sits around talking about.

What are you reading, watching, memorizing, and applying that will make you an exceptional man?

Action is character. Manhood is action.