Quotes About Integrity

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Revile those who flatter you.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Great courage will be required to choose the right.

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.