1. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

2. We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

- Desmond Tutu

3. It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

- Zig Ziglar

4. It takes courage to create a meaningful life of integrity. It also requires good company. And practice.

- Shelley Francis

5. Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

- Dr. William Menninger

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

- David A. Bednar

7. No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

- William Godwin

8. If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

- Alan K. Simpson

9. Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

- Oliver Cromwell

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

- Douglas Adams

11. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather.

- John D. MacDonald

13. Hypocrisy is when your actions fail to live up to your words. Integrity is when your actions guide your choice of words.

- Adam Grant

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

- Moliere

15. Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

- C.S. Lewis

16. There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

- Arlen Specter

17. If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it’s OK. It’s when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

- Bonnnie Hunt

18. The more someone is saying that they’re moral, ethical, and high integrity, the less likely they are to be that way.

- Naval Ravikant

19. Integrity lies in doing what one speaks; speaking what one does.

- M.K. Soni

20. Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.

- James Clear

21. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.

- Nicole Guillaume

22. If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

- Epictetus

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

- Albert Einstein

24. Never do anything that you can’t admit doing because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it’s probably wrong.

- Ashly Lorenzana

25. A little integrity is better than any career.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

- Zig Ziglar

27. Integrity is when what you think and what you say and what you do are one.

- Naval Ravikant

28. Saying ‘yes’ or ‘maybe’ when we mean no, cheapens our word, diminishes our sense of self-respect, and compromises our integrity.

- Paolo Coelho

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

- Thomas B. Macaulay

30. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

- Isaac Asimov

31. The most precious reputation is the one you have with yourself.

- Johnny Uzan

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

- Oprah Winfrey

33. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

- Lao Tzu

34. It’s easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.

- Clayton Christensen

35. Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

- Brian Tracy

36. If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

- Hennry Kravis

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Alan Cohen

39. If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

- Klord Milner

40. 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

41. Conduct reveals character, and we best understand integrity when we see it lived out in a person’s life.

- Charles H. Dyer, Character Counts

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

- Brian Tracy

43. 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

44. We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

- Jimmy Carter

45. The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

46. Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

48. 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

49. Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self.

- Karla McLaren

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

- Samuel Johnson

51. It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.

- Ray Kroc

52. 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

53. Integrity is the thing that binds together all that is good within us as a means of overcoming all that is bad around us.

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- Aristotle

55. People with integrity expect to be believed. If not, they let time prove them right.

- Ann Landers

56. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty.

- Pearl S. Buck

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

- Chinua Achebe

58. Integrity is the ingredient that will enable you to forge rapidly ahead on the highway that leads to success. It advertises you as being an individual who will always come through. Whatever you say you will do, do it even if you have to move heaven and earth.

- Mary Kay

59. With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

- Zig Ziglar

60. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

62. Calamity and prosperity are the touchstones of integrity.

- Benjamin Franklin

63. People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

- Lewis Cass

64. Your level of integrity, ethical behavior and sense of fairness will contribute to your success – or lack of it – over the long term.

- Ross Wilson, The Happy Agent

65. Develop your character so that you are a person of integrity.

- Peter Cain

66. Supporting the truth, even when it is unpopular, shows the capacity for honesty and integrity.

- Steve Brunkhorst

67. Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

- Lou Holz

68. Openness, respect, integrity – these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make

- Justin Trudeau

69. Admitting one’s own faults is the first step to changing them, and it is a demonstration of true bravery and integrity.

- Philip Johnson

70. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

- Billy Graham

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

- Laura Schlessinger

72. When it comes to our own behavior, we sometimes display an integrity gap between what we believe and how we behave.

- Bob Stone, The Ethics Challenge

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

74. Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Joseph Conrad

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

77. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

- Junius

78. Low integrity moves are much more visible than high integrity moves.

- James Pierce

79. A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

- Baltasar Gracian

80. Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

- St. Augustine

81. Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

- Zig Ziglar

82. 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

83. Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

- Richard Carlson, Don’t Worry, Make Money

84. Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

- Greg Anderson

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

- Samuel Johnson

86. Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails.

- Earl Nightingale

87. Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

- Stephen Covey

88. Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

- Proverbs 10:9, ESV

89. Integrity isn’t a destination. It is a way of life. It is an internal guidance system that will never guide you astray!

- Kelley Kosow, The Integrity Advantage

90. Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

- Jack McDevitt

91. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

- Nelson Mandela

92. The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Zig Ziglar

94. Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

95. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- Mark Twain

96. Living a life of integrity pays off, but it takes a very long time.

- Naval Ravikant

97. Living with integrity means behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

- Barbara De Angelis

98. Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

- Joyce Meyer

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

- Denis Waitley

100. Integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.

- Plato

101. Integrity is making sure that the things you say and the things you do are in alignment.

- Katrina Mayer

102. Power really is a test of character. In the hands of a person of integrity, it is of tremendous benefit; in the hands of a tyrant, it causes terrible destruction.

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

104. The more you live with integrity the higher your self-esteem.

- Dan Go

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

- Spencer Johnson

106. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

- William Shakespeare

107. Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth – always – even if it leads to your death.

- Liam Neeson, Kingdom of Heaven

108. Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

- John C. Maxwell

109. You should not lead one life in private and another in public.

- Publilius Syrus

110. When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.

- Stephen Covey

111. Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.

- Charlie Munger

112. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

113. If you value your integrity, then be prepared to take a beating from those who have none.

- Lars Lau Thygesen

114. Don’t quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

- Howard Cosell

115. The virtuous worry about their integrity, lesser humans about their reputation.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

116. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.

- Nicholas Sparks

117. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.

- Roy T. Bennett