Quotes on Integrity

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

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

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

It's easy to assume that just because you make something in small volumes, not using many tools, that there is integrity and care - that is a false assumption.