Quotes About Integrity

Part of a leader's groundwork is in honing work ethic.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Business leaders should seek out intrinsically oriented individuals whose core values are aligned with those of the company. As it stands, asking a potential new hire how a particular job could be a vehicle for expanding his or her character strengths and intrinsic growth opportunities is a very different conversation from the one typically carried on during the job interview process. Some

People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe.

The advice in this book centers around two overarching messages: Be thoughtful in your actions and always conduct yourself with class. You will never regret either.

I run a good, honest establishment, so I'm not worried," she said, looking very worried.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

But what I'm saying is that whenever I've been in trouble spots -- in crises (and I've been in a lot of trouble and in a lot of crises) -- the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.

We will become known for the good traits we consistently exhibit or the bad habits we allow to creep into our life.

Anytime we fail to bring our best efforts to our job, we diminish our employer, our colleagues, and most significantly, ourselves.

We will all be known for a lifetime of polite, professional behavior or a few lapses in judgement and decorum.

Leadership is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you're not.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk to be true to ourselves.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.