Integrity Quotations | Page 2

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.