Quotes About Integrity

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.

the test of a man then is not, "How have I believed?" but "How have I loved?

It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings.

The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.

You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man—criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man—to rule by force instead of by intelligence.