Integrity
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- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone.
- Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
- Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
- Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.
- Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.
- Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Don’t trade integrity for money.
- Don’t trade respect for attention.
- Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.
- Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
- Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others; but there are priests of Baal, of Moloch, and of all the false gods.
- Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
- Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
- Failing to admit a small mistake is the surest way to make a big one.
- Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
- Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.
- First, let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and Secondly, spend one penny less than thy clear gains.
- Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
- Friendship depends on trust and trust grows when we live our lives honestly and sincerely, cultivating respect and concern for others.
- From afar, we admire talent. Up close, what counts most is character. You can impress people with your skills, but you earn their trust by standing for something greater than yourself.
- Gain at the expense of reputation should be called loss.
- Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
- Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
- Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
- He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed.
- He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
- He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
- He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.
- Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
- Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.
- Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.
- Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
- Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” – it is greatness itself.
- Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.