Quotes About Integrity

Anyone can follow the crowd but only a true visionary will dare to stand up for what he/she believes in.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

My child, what does it matter, if you are in the right? Always follow the truth without caring about the result. Very often you may have to suffer injustice or unpleasant consequences for holding to the truth; but you must not, under any circumstances, abandon it.

When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. Stand up and die game! Do not add one lunacy to another. Do not add your weakness to the evil that is going to come. That is all I have to say to the world.

Ceux qui, sournoisement, s'alarment d'un génocide au Burundi le font pour d'autres petits calculs que le souci de vérité & de fraternité

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

he never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

If honesty angers, it is not true anger but rather confusion over what is truth.

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Better remain jobless than work with a private organization that treats inhumanly and humiliates its employees.

He who pledges or promises runs in debt.

People who claim to be motivational speakers or advisers or coaches or mentors or corporate trainers , but secretly communicate through the session the intention of company's board executives to the employees are actually BOOTLICKERs. Their job is to fool or suppress employees. But if they don't do it like this, then no private organization will hire them.They can be observed often boozing or partying.

Just because rich people have pledged money, it does not mean that they have actually given it to charity.