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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons

  Love, Honesty, Greatness

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• The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.156, Penguin

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• The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

  Frank Lucas

  Honesty, Hard Work, Important

  "Fictional character: Frank Lucas". "American Gangster", 2007.

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• The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

  Socrates

  Reality, Greatness, Keys

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  Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Smile, Thankful

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 22, 2014

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• Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

  George Eliot

  Ashamed, Doing Right, Integrity And Character

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• Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

  Thomas Lickona

  Heart, Character, Knowing

  Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Fighting, Equality, Rights

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

  Jean-Cyril Spinetta

  Motivational, Trying, Truthful

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• Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hypocrisy, Identity, Vices

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• In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honor, World, Substitutes

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• We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Responsibility, Our Actions, Our Society

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• Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

  James E. Faust

  Light, Discipline, Shining

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Biblical, Christian Inspirational

  David Jeremiah (2015). “What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.112, David C Cook

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• The world needs role models, instead of critics.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Role Models, Needs

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• As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

  Marianne Williamson

  Abundance Of Love, Long, Building

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.87, Penguin

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• Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 11, 2017

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• Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Sin, Achieve

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.984, Discovery House

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• The mind that's conscious of its rectitude,
  Laughs at the lies of rumor.

  Ovid

  Lying, Laughing, Mind

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• True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

  Hope Solo

  Hero, Hard Work, Made

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• I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Money, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.26, Modern Library

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Taken, Organization

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Patriotic, Evil People

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

  Virgil

  Yield, Evil, Honor

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VI, 29-19 BC.

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