Integrity Quotes
Most popular integrity quotes
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
![Integrity has no need of rules. - Albert Camus quote.](/img/q/67/12767A-integrity-has-no-need-of-rules-albert-camus.png)
Integrity has no need of rules.
![Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson quote.](/img/q/16/20816A-integrity-without-knowledge-is-weak-and-useless-knowledge-without-integrity-samuel-johnson.png)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
![If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. - Gordon Parks quote.](/img/q/35/26735A-if-a-man-can-reach-the-latter-days-his-life-gordon-parks.png)
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.
![Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity. - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/60/27560A-necessity-may-well-be-called-the-mother-invention-but-calamity-samuel-richardson.png)
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
![This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. - Freya Stark quote.](/img/q/03/30503A-this-is-excellence-the-following-of-anything-its-own-sake-freya-stark.png)
This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
![It has always seemed to me that the test of the integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe quote.](/img/q/53/33753A-it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-test-integrity-is-chinua-achebe.png)
It has always seemed to me that the test of the integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain.
![Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself than straightforward and simple integrity in another. - C. C. Colton quote.](/img/q/56/33756A-nothing-so-completely-baffles-one-who-is-full-trick-duplicity-c-c-colton.png)
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
![In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.](/img/q/57/33757A-in-failing-circumstances-no-man-can-be-relied-keep-his-ralph-waldo-emerson.png)
In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
![Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. - Erich Fromm quote.](/img/q/58/33758A-integrity-simply-means-a-willingness-not-violate-ones-identity-many-erich-fromm.png)
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
![Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. - John W. Gardner quote.](/img/q/59/33759A-men-of-integrity-by-their-very-existence-rekindle-belief-that-john-w-gardner.png)
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor.
![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. - Thomas Jefferson quote.](/img/q/61/33761A-i-am-sure-that-in-estimating-every-mans-value-either-thomas-jefferson.png)
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.
![Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity. - D. H. Lawrence quote.](/img/q/63/33763A-sin-is-a-queer-thing-it-isnt-breaking-divine-commandments-d-h-lawrence.png)
Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity.
![Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others. - Madelein K. L'Engle quote.](/img/q/64/33764A-integrity-like-humility-is-a-quality-which-vanishes-moment-we-madelein-k-lengle.png)
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
![Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. - Don Marquis quote.](/img/q/65/33765A-some-persons-are-likeable-in-spite-their-unswerving-integrity-don-marquis.png)
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
![If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. - Molière quote.](/img/q/66/33766A-if-everyone-were-clothed-with-integrity-if-every-heart-were-moliere.png)
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
![There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. - Tom Peters quote.](/img/q/69/33769A-there-is-no-such-thing-as-minor-lapse-integrity-tom-peters.png)
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
![A house can have integrity, just like a person. - Ayn Rand quote.](/img/q/70/33770A-a-house-can-have-integrity-just-like-person-ayn-rand.png)
A house can have integrity, just like a person.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
![Integrity pays, but not in cash. - Jennifer Stone quote.](/img/q/75/33775A-integrity-pays-but-not-in-cash-jennifer-stone.png)
Integrity pays, but not in cash.
![Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. - Eudora Welty quote.](/img/q/76/33776A-integrity-can-be-neither-lost-nor-concealed-nor-faked-nor-eudora-welty.png)
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
You don't just luck into integrity. You work at it.
![The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. - Zig Ziglar quote.](/img/q/78/33778A-the-most-important-persuasion-tool-you-have-your-entire-arsenal-zig-ziglar.png)
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
![The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quote.](/img/q/19/51619A-the-supreme-quality-for-leadership-is-unquestionably-integrity-without-it-dwight-d-eisenhower.png)
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Qualities of good character and integrity make an enormous difference in achieving success.