Quotes on Integrity

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

A little integrity is better than any career.

Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.

Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.