Moral Integrity Quotes:

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

topic: Integrity, Balance, Taste, Moral Integrity, Good Taste

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

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.

- Jewel

topic: Integrity, People, Brave, Moral Integrity, Moral Code

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

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.239, Algora Publishing

topic: Integrity, Men, Morality, Integrity Character, Moral 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

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk

- Margaret Chase Smith

source: NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

topic: Country, Mind, Moral, Moral Integrity, Moral Courage

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.150, Univ of California Press

topic: Attitude, Integrity, Gentleman, Moral Integrity

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

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

- Leon Blum

topic: Choices, May, Ethics, Moral Integrity

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

- Margaret Chase Smith

source: NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

topic: Happiness, Courage, Integrity, Test Of Character, Integrity And Character

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

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

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

- Lewis H. Lapham

source: Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

topic: Leadership, Character, Technique, Integrity And Character, Integrity Character

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

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Integrity, Offending, Moral Integrity, Coveting

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

- Jackson Katz

source: "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.

topic: Change, Integrity, Men, Moral Integrity, Violence Against Women

Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

- Mustafa Akyol

topic: Integrity, Intellectual, Immaturity, Moral Integrity

We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct magnanimity, in short does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Integrity, Passion, Artist, Moral Integrity, Magnanimity

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

- Billy Graham

topic: Integrity, Real, Character, Moral Integrity

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

topic: Integrity, Thinking, Reality, Moral Integrity, Verdict