Quotes About Integrity

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Stand up for truth regardless of who steps on it.

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

If he wants me broken then I will have to be whole.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universe—whose support do you stand in need of?

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

He works for work's sake. "Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.

There is only one sin. That is weakness.

Work for work's sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven.

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Such a man is the same whether his work succeeds or fails.

Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because they will say things and then do something else when they get into office.

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.