Integrity
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- If you want better outcomes, learn to do the boring work when no one is watching.
- If you want the truth on your side, get on the side of truth.
- If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
- If you want to be successful in life, respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
- If you will not do the thing you know to be right, and say the thing you know to be true, then indeed you are weak.
- If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- If your highest value is loyalty, you run the risk of compromising your integrity. Allegiance to people matters. Allegiance to principles matters more.
- Image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
- In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
- In conduct do not make trifles of trifles. Regard the smallest action as being either right or wrong, and make a conscience of little things.
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief.
- In terms of picking people to work with, pick ones that have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity.
- In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere.
- In the short run, lying is easy and honesty is hard. In the long run, honesty is easy and lying is hard. What you choose today makes your tomorrow.
- Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
- Integrity compounds infinitely, capability always decays.
- Integrity gains strength by use.
- Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- Integrity is holding ourselves to the same high standards that we have for others.
- Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
- Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
- Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
- Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest.
- Integrity is when our words and deeds are consistent with our intentions.Simon SinekCommonly attributed
- Integrity is when what you think and what you say and what you do are one.
- It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teachings.
- It is always the right time to do the right thing.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
- It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
- It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
- It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.
- It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
- It's so much easier to do good than to be good.