Integrity
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- Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
- Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.Richard WhatelySourced
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
- Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Honesty needs neither disguise nor ornament.
- Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
- Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
- Hypocrisy is when your actions fail to live up to your words. Integrity is when your actions guide your choice of words.
- I am sure that in estimating every man’s value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
- I believe that one leading coach practicing sportsmanship does more good than fifty coaches merely preaching it.
- I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.
- I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing.
- I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
- I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
- I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
- I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
- I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience.
- I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
- I would rather be right than be president.
- I would rather offend you with the truth than please you with flattery.
- I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
- If a man has nothing to reproach himself with, he can bear anything.
- If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches.
- If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, “tell the truth.”
- If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
- If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.
- If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.
- If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
- If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
- If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
- If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.
- If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
- If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains. If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
- If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right.
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.