Integrity Quotes

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"Easy it is for anyone to speak; hard it is to do what one has said."

Thiruvalluvar

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Chase your dreams, but make sure you do not find shortcuts. The path might be difficult, but don't give up."

Ramesh Tendulkar (as recalled by Sachin Tendulkar)

"However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad."

B. R. Ambedkar

"I would rather be right than be President."

Henry Clay

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

Chinua Achebe

"The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much."

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done."

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson

"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies."

Rudyard Kipling

“I only promise that which I intend to deliver.”

“With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“Nobody likes tainted victories.”

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”

“We ought not to care so much for what the many say of us, but what he, the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will say.”