Quotes on Integrity

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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

A promise must never be broken.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.