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Quotes About Integrity

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
~ Tricia Helfer
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
~ Unknown
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
~ Unknown
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
~ Plato
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
~ George Santayana
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
~ Aristotle
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
~ Mark Shields
Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
~ Lewis Carroll
Character makes its own destiny.
~ Rosa Campbell Praed
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
~ George Packer
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
~ Angela Merkel
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
~ Jackie Robinson
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
~ Claude McKay
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
~ Dominique de Menil
Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.
~ Jason Evert
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
~ Robert Kennedy
Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
~ Oriana Fallaci