Honesty Integrity Quotes:

This above all; to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio

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

- John Ruskin

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

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

source: Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

topic: Honesty, People, Deceit, Deceitful, Not Honest

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

topic: Success, Witty, Atheist, Inspirational Military, Memorial Day Poems

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

- William Shakespeare

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

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

- Jesse Ventura

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

topic: Wise, Witty, Powerful, Ignorance Is Bliss, Lies Truth

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 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

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

- John McCain

topic: Leadership, Honesty, Integrity, Honesty Integrity

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

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

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

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

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

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

- Alan K. Simpson

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Inspiration, Spiritual Integrity, Integrity And Character

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

- Mark Twain

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

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

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

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

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

- Taylor Lautner

topic: Loyalty, Honesty, Keys, Honest Person, Honesty Integrity

Who lies for you will lie against you.

- John Locke

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Lies Truth, Dishonesty And Lying

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

- Wendell Willkie

topic: People, Wish, Honorable, Trustworthiness, Your Honor

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

- Walter Inglis Anderson

topic: Chance, Take A Chance, Chance And Risk, Risks In Life, Risk And Failure

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

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

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

- Mario Cuomo

source: "In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery". Book by Karen Casey, 1991.

topic: Character, Done, Feels Right, Making Good Choices, Integrity Character

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

- William Safire

topic: Mean, Liberty, Doe, Good Character, Making Good Choices

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Relationship, Integrity, Together, Trustworthiness, Strong Relationship

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Business, Integrity, Bad Day, Social Responsibility, Best Investment

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Christmas, Moving, Evil, Poor Richard, No Integrity

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Loyalty, Respect, Honesty, Making Good Choices, Inspirational Character

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

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

- Moliere

topic: Integrity, Heart, Would Be, Spiritual Integrity, Integrity And Character

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

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

- Edward R. Murrow

source: Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Being Truthful, Power Of Persuasion

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

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

- Michelle Obama

source: Speeach at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Squares, Truth And Honesty, Truth Honesty

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

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

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

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

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

topic: Life, War, Integrity, Good Character, Inspirational Character

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

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