Ethics And Integrity Quotes:

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Social Good, Social Service

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Spiritual Integrity, Integrity And Character

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom, Inspirational Wisdom, Most Wise

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- W. Clement Stone

source: "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Courage, Inspirational Courage, Spiritual Integrity

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Presidential

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Knowledge Of The World, Integrity And Character

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Education, Honesty, Integrity, Antithesis, Knowledge Is Dangerous

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Truth, Soldiers At War, Inspirational Military

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Happiness, Light Of My Life, Wise People

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Lack Of Integrity, Leadership Development

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Leadership, Money, Integrity, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspirational Service

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Inspirational Parenting, Lack Of Integrity

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Success, Integrity, Moral Ethics, Moral Integrity

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart, Leadership Integrity, Moral Ethics

A little integrity is better than any career.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Integrity, Careers, Littles, Lack Of Integrity, Personal Integrity

Do the right thing because it is right.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

topic: Courage, Honesty, Integrity, Inspirational Courage, Spiritual Integrity

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Moral Ethics, Moral Integrity

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Integrity, Moral Obligation, Integrity And Character

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Ethics, Morality, Reverence, Ethics And Integrity, Reverence For Life

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.

- John D. MacDonald

source: "The Turquoise Lament". Interview with John D. MacDonald, 1973.

topic: Integrity, Men, Blow, Morals And Integrity, Cheating Yourself

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Truth, Honesty, Conformist, Leadership Integrity

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Integrity, Morals And Integrity

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Honesty, No Confidence, Ethics And Integrity

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Success, Truth, Cornerstones, Ethics And Integrity

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

- George Eliot

topic: Integrity, Ashamed, Doing Right, Integrity And Character, Leadership Integrity

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Stars, Integrity, Light, Ethics And Integrity, Honest And Integrity

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

- Mark Twain

topic: Memories, Needs, Good Memories, Way In Life, Being Truthful

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

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Self Esteem, Integrity And Character, Moral Ethics

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

- Aristotle

topic: Integrity, Destiny, Men, Leadership Integrity, Moral Ethics

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Hurt, Morality, Ethics, Moral Ethics, Ethics And Integrity

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

- George Eliot

topic: Positive, Thinking, Sticks, Integrity Character, Leadership Integrity

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Loyalty, Mindless, Inspirational Achievement

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

- Graeme Samuel

topic: Leadership, Integrity, Important, Ethics And Integrity

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

- Billy Graham

topic: Integrity, Practice, World, Disclosure, Evangelists

It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

- Steve Kerr

topic: Integrity, Everyday, Literature, Ethics And Integrity