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Quotes About Integrity

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
~ Joe Klein
If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.
~ John Robinson
A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.
~ Jon Shenk
What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.
~ Zachary Quinto
Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.
~ Judith M Bardwick
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
~ Tennessee Williams
I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
~ Kate Voegele
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.
~ Marc Jacobs
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.
~ Martha Finley
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
~ Mary J. Blige
I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
~ Melina Marchetta
Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
~ Michael Josephson
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
~ Michael K. Williams
I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.
~ Jane Austen, Lady Susan
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
~ Jesus Christ