Integrity
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- The most dangerous liars in the world, I have found, are not the people who lie to other people, but the people who lie to themselves.
- The most important quality in a leader is integrity: doing the right thing even when it’s hard.
- The most precious reputation is the one you have with yourself.
- The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.
- The only work that matters is the work that no one sees. It shows who you really are rather than who you say you are.
- The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
- The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
- The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
- The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity.
- The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- The surest, as the shortest way, to make yourself beloved and honored, is to be, indeed, the very man you wish to appear.SocratesCommonly attributed
- The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
- The truth, no matter how bad, is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.
- The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are in the sea.
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
- There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
- There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
- There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
- There is no evil we cannot face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded.
- There is no fit search after truth which does not, first of all, begin to live the truth which it knows.
- There is no present advantage in anything that may someday force you to break your word, or to lose respect for yourself, or to hate, suspect, or curse another, or to pretend to be other than what you are, or to lust after what you'd be ashamed to seek openly.
- There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
- There is no time so miserable but a man may be true.
- There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
- Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- To thine own self be true.
- Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
- Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
- Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
- Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
- Thus at a banquet, do not discuss how people ought to eat; but eat as you ought.
- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.
- To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule so to speak: You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
- To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
- To redeem a world sunk in dishonesty has not been given thee. Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control. Him redeem, him make honest.
- To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.