Integrity Quotes

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

Oprah Winfrey

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

Robert W. Service

"Be impeccable with your word."

Don Miguel Ruiz

"Integrity has no need of rules."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman

"If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are."

"Truth is the highest thing that man may keep."

Geoffrey Chaucer

"Above all, don't lie to yourself."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"We must not let our respect for a man take precedence over the truth."

"Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything."

"Live truth instead of professing it."

Elbert Hubbard

"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy."

Brené Brown

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority, not violation of integrity."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet,' deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Samuel Johnson

"Well done is better than well said."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway."

"Chase your dreams, but make sure you don't find shortcuts."

Sachin Tendulkar

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."

Warren Buffett