75 Quotes on Integrity
If you’re looking to inspire some integrity within your workplace, consider some of these dynamic quotes from people across the world. Integrity can be challenging and difficult to define in business — read on for some of our favorite quotes (both serious and humorous) from these leaders.
“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self.”
“Develop your character so that you are a person of integrity.”
“It takes courage to create a meaningful life of integrity. It also requires good company. And practice.”
“With many overhead schemes for the world’s salvation, everything rests back on integrity and driving power in personal character.”
“Supporting the truth, even when it is unpopular, shows the capacity for honesty and integrity.”
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
“The development and contributing factors to good character is the continual process of understanding the components and actions of love. It is these components that provide the guidance for compassion, integrity, behaviors and actions that transcend living only for self.”
“Creating a culture of integrity and accountability not only improves effectiveness, it also generates a respectful, enjoyable and life-giving setting in which to work.”
“Customer retention may be best supported by operational integrity. After all, when you think about your personal relationships as well as your business relationships, you tend to stick with the folks that are really good at showing they sincerely care about you, and doing what they say they’re going to do. It boils down to trust.”
“As you experience changes and breakthroughs, know that integrity, honesty and truth are the highest vibrating energies to guide you forward. Everything else will fall away.”
“Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.”
“The qualities of a great man are “vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”
“Think P.I.G. – that’s my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. These are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life.”
“Honor your commitments with integrity.”
“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.”
“One of your most prized possessions is integrity; if this is you, then you should never compromise it.”
“All believers must guard the heart and the mind and strive to walk before Christ and with each other in integrity.”
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
“Power really is a test of character. In the hands of a person of integrity, it is of tremendous benefit; in the hands of a tyrant, it causes terrible destruction.”
“I don’t know a more dignified and effective workforce than one operating from a position of worth, integrity, and confidence, as well as one that excels in language of appreciation.”
“You could consider Wednesday as a day of the week to inspire yourself and others to accomplish all that needs to be done by the end of the week.”
“Some things are kind of obvious when it comes to leadership. You have to be a great communicator, have very high integrity and have tremendous perseverance and stamina.”
“Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails.”
“Here’s a truth: principled leaders solve moral problems. They have the courage to act rightly. They consistently demonstrate principled conduct under pressure.”
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
“Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
“The support of truth takes integrity.”
“People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.”
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
“The first law of leadership is that your foundation is built through integrity, character, and trust.”
“The wind might cause a kite to rise, but what keeps it up there is the fact that somebody on the ground has a steady hand. You have to hold steady to your values – your integrity. It’s your anchor. You let go of that. . . well, it isn’t long before your kite comes crashing down.”
“Admitting one’s own faults is the first step to changing them, and it is a demonstration of true bravery and integrity.”
“For those who find themselves more concerned with how much money they can accumulate for the sake of wealth alone, who find themselves stuck like glue to materialistic possessions that mean more than their personal integrity or their contribution to their fellow human beings, these traps have jaws of steel.”
“Integrity is the ingredient that will enable you to forge rapidly ahead on the highway that leads to success. It advertises you as being an individual who will always come through. Whatever you say you will do, do it even if you have to move heaven and earth.”
“Your level of integrity, ethical behaviour and sense of fairness will contribute to your success – or lack of it – over the long term.”
“If you want to influence others, the most important thing you can do is be a living example of the principles, ideals, and faith that you advocate.”
“Integrity lies in, doing what one speaks; speaking what one does.”
“Having a grateful disposition brings about other virtues, including generosity, compassion, humility, joy, wisdom, trust and integrity.”
“The personal cost of keeping your own ethics sound and true may seem a bit of a burden at times but that is a minimal price to pay to be true to yourself. There is absolutely no advantage to changing or altering a set of ethics that portray a person of value and integrity.”
“When you trust people, you have confidence in them — in their integrity and in their abilities.”
“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.”
“Walk with honor, character, and integrity in all that you do. Do these things and you will find that you can appreciate the adventure of life and live with greater ease.”
“My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”
“It takes courage to “join soul and role” in organizations that make it unsafe to show up with integrity and act in alignment with it. But when we find that courage, our lives become more whole, our work reaches deeper, the people we serve are better served, and, in ways large and small, the world becomes a better place.”
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.”
“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”
“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”