Integrity
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- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- No man is bound to be rich or great, no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.Sir Benjamin RudyerdSourced
- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
- No man was ever big enough to build an enduring success on the basis of insincerity; but many comparatively small men, like Peter the Hermit or Billy Sunday, fired with conviction, have been able to create and sustain a very considerable influence.
- No matter what a man’s aims, or resolutions, or professions may be, it is by one’s deeds that he is to be judged, both by God and man.
- No moral end can be obtained by demoralizing means.
- None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. Such persons covet secrets as spendthrifts do money, for the purpose of circulation.
- Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
- Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
- Of vain things, excuses are the vainest.
- Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
- One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.
- One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
- One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
- One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
- One person of integrity can make a difference.
- Only an honest soul can conduct an honest business.John WanamakerSourced
- Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.
- People don’t love perfect people, they love honest people.
- People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
- People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
- Perfect valor is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.
- Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
- Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
- Plato, hearing that some asserted he was a very bad man, said, "I shall take care so to live that nobody will believe them."
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
- Prove your words by your deeds.
- Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak.
- Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
- Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.