Honest And Integrity Quotes:

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

- Mark Twain

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Nature, Integrity, Inspirational Friendship, Honest Work

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Leadership, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Integrity, Not Trusting

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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Believe, Not Honest, Belief And Action

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Spirit Bound

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Positive, Time, Integrity, Integrity And Character, Integrity Character

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

- Harper Lee

source: To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

topic: Honesty, Powerful, Integrity, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspiring, Success, Honesty, Good News, Truth And Honesty

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Loyalty, Honesty, Integrity And Character, Strong Foundation

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Lying, Finding Out The Truth, Telling Lies

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Practice, Practice What You Preach, Honest 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

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

- George Washington

topic: Trust, Hope, Truth, Firmness, Inspirational Character

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

- John Ruskin

topic: Trust, Children, Truth, Truth Honesty, Honest And Integrity

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

- Dennis Prager

source: FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 07, 2014

topic: Honesty, Kindness, Integrity, Kindness Generosity, Columnists

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

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Honesty, Integrity, War, Being Truthful, American Patriotism

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Truth, Honesty, Liars, Lies And Liars, Lies Truth

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

- James E. Faust

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Lying, Telling Lies, Truth And Honesty

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

- Michelle Obama

source: Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

topic: Honesty, Squares, Shortcuts, Honest And Integrity, Honest Person

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Honesty, Men, World, Rascals, Dishonesty And Lying

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

- Mark Twain

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

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.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

topic: Respect, Fear, Integrity, True To Myself, Moral Hazard

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

- Jesse Ventura

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

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Honesty, Making Good Choices, Lost Myself

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

- Charles Edward Montague

topic: Lying, Taken, Left Out, Lies Truth, Being Lied

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

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

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

- Ed McMahon

topic: Honesty, Army, Important, Honest And Integrity, Honest Person

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Cheating, Art, Honesty, Drawing And Painting, Best Art

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Honesty, Integrity, High Road, Taking The High Road, Honest And Integrity

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Fake People, Truth, Secret Life, Just Live Your Life

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

- Josh Billings

topic: Wisdom, Truth, Honesty, Complete Honesty, Telling Lies

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Inspiring, Honesty, Kindness, Traditional Values, Honest And Integrity

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Mediocre Minds

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

- Walter Anderson

source: Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Change, Happiness, Success, Taking Risks, Chance And Risk

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: 1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

topic: Depression, Being Yourself, Men, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Affected, Interpersonal Relationship

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Life, Fake People, Secret Life, Dealing With Life

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Truth, Honesty, Dishonesty And Lying, Being Lied

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Being Straightforward, Trust And Honesty