Quotes About Integrity

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.