Integrity
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- To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
- To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
- Tomorrow is made easier by integrity not expediency.
- True faith is faith only if the actions of your life are in harmony with it and never contradict it.
- True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.
- Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
- Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.
- Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform.
- Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
- Trust is built when no one is looking.
- Trust is built with consistency.
- Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
- Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
- Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
- Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal excellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is rectitude, truth in action, and shines through every word and deed.
- Uprightness is even better capital than executive ability.John WanamakerSourced
- Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than in having a clear conscience.
- We must be true to ourselves, or else, in the long run, we shall be false to all others.
- We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
- We should study the interests of others as our own, and be careful to act on all occasions with uprightness and loyalty.
- Well done is better than well said.
- Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought to be as we do to disguise what we really are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
- What is done for effect, is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love, is felt to be done for love.
- What is left when honour is lost?
- What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
- When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good.
- When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
- When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.
- When you don’t know what to do, tell the truth.
- When you face a choice between being polite and being honest, err on the side of the truth. It’s better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere.
- When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
- When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
- When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
- When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
- Whenever you make a commitment to another person, you create hope. When you keep that commitment, you create trust.
- Where there is integrity, there will be trust. Where there is trust, there will be an atmosphere for success.
- Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.