100+ Inspiring Quotes About Integrity
Integrity is a timeless value that serves as a foundation for trust and authenticity. This article delves into the significance of integrity through a collection of inspirational quotes. These quotes, curated under 10 thought-provoking subtitles, aim to remind us of the importance of honesty, character, and moral fortitude in our daily lives. Whether you're seeking personal motivation or insights for professional development, these words of wisdom offer an enriching reflection on living a life of integrity. Integrity shapes our decisions, molds our character, and defines our paths. Enjoy these curated quotes about integrity, and let them inspire a deeper appreciation for truth and trust in your journey.
"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." - Spencer Johnson
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones." - John Lennon
"Integrity is the cornerstone of any lasting relationship." - Brian Tracy
"A good reputation is more valuable than money." - Publilius Syrus
"When you are honest in small things, you'll be honest in bigger ones." - Luke 16:10
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
"The high road of integrity is the only road that leads to true success." - Zig Ziglar
"Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving." - James E. Faust
"Character is what you are in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
"We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters...that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules...and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square." - Michelle Obama
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." - C.S. Lewis
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." - Confucius
"Success without integrity is failure." - Anonymous
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you." - Warren Buffet
"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them." - Brené Brown
"Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it." - M.H. McKee
"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." - Bob Marley
"Integrity can make or break a marriage." - Anonymous
"Integrity reveals beauty." - Thomas Leonard
"Character is integrity held in principle and practice." - Unknown
"You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty." - Joseph Conrad
"A leader with integrity can be trusted beyond doubt." - Anonymous
"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word." - Brian Tracy
"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Integrity in leadership is not optional, it’s an obligation." - Annie Gray
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes." - Peter Drucker
"Leading with integrity makes you stand out like a lighthouse in a storm." - Anonymous
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Trust, but verify." - Ronald Reagan
"True leadership lies in guiding others to success—in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well." - Bill Owens
"A good leader is someone whose followers would rally behind even if they weren’t required to." - James Stockdale
"Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got." - Janis Joplin
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." - Aristotle
"There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience." - John Wooden
"Knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully." - Richard Bach
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions." - Junius
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." - George MacDonald
"Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it." - Steve Maraboli
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett
"The cost of gaining a new customer is ten times more than that of retaining an existing one, and integrity is the bridge to this ongoing relationship." - Anonymous
"Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time." - Barbara Bush
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them." - W. Edwards Deming
"Earning trust is as much a process as losing it." - Jeffrey Fry
"People will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do." - Elvis Presley
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius
"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don’t." - Peter Scotese
"The fastest way to prosper is to do others good." - Anonymous
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity." - Baltasar Gracian
"Trust is built with consistency." - Lincoln Chafee
"Without trust we forget what it means to truly lead." - Anonymous
"Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built." - Brian Tracy
"Every act of genuine kindness and compassion changes history, and it reminds us all that there is hope beyond fear." - Barack Obama
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself." - Winston Churchill
"Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned." - Anonymous
"Trust is like a vase... once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again." - Walter Anderson
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." - Warren Bennis
"When your integrity is at its peak, so will be your ability to speak lasting words." - Anonymous
"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." - Criss Jami
"It takes a million good deeds to build a good reputation, and one bad one to lose it." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, if you lose integrity you lose everything." - Anonymous
"Integrity means that if your private life was suddenly exposed, you’d have no reason to be ashamed." - Mark Batterson
"You always have a choice to be better." - Anonymous
"It is easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When you stand in integrity, you create the life of your dreams." - Marie Forleo
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"Dare to be honest and fear no labor." - Robert Burns
"If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything." - Gordon A. Eadie
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you really stand." - Hayley Williams
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore
"You can measure a man’s worth by the things he takes for granted." - John Steinbeck
"To be a leader who keeps their word is to be a leader who never takes their integrity for granted." - Anonymous
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"Integrity is not a conditional word." - John D. MacDonald
"Money can buy you a good time, but character will steer you through a good life." - Rabbi Daniel Lapin
"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide." - Ice Cube
"It's not always easy to be honest, but it’s always rewarding." - Anonymous
"Goodness is about character. Integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like." - Dennis Prager
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised." - Chinua Achebe
"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Anonymous
"Choose your friends based on integrity, not image." - Anonymous
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein
"Integrity is keeping your commitments even if you lose money or the deal." - Anonymous
"Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to validate your dream; trust yourself and your path." - Anonymous
"Authenticity and integrity are caught better than taught." - Anonymous
"If you warn someone that a thing might be too deep for their understanding, that acknowledgment can, paradoxically, deepen their understanding." - Criss Jami
"Authenticity starts in the heart." - Brian D’Angelo
"Each person’s life leaves a mark. Do something that teaches your heart to dance." - Marie Forleo
"The greatest way to live with honor is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"Our souls remain on a journey - destined for greater manifestations requiring staking of greater integrity claims." - Unknown
"Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great." - Alex Harris
"Be the kind of person you want your kids to be." - Anonymous
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - John Boyle O’Reilly
"You’ll have fewer regrets when you choose to be yourself." - Stephanie Lahart
"To seek one’s own honor is no honor at all." - Rabindranath Tagore
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes
"Integrity is making a commitment to tell the truth, every single time." - Tony Dungy
"Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation." - John Wooden
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold." - Bob Marley
"The reality of your life is not about how much money you make, but rather how much integrity you have." - Michelle Obama
"Your personal worth is measured by your character, not by your bank account." - Unknown
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." - Lao Tzu
"Your talents belong to others; your character is what you keep to yourself." - Anonymous
