Integrity Quotes - Page 16

• We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

  John Wooden

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Goal

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Helping Others, Leader

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• Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice...to be honorable and to behave decently.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Mean, Sacrifice, Cost

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• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Respecting Others, Ifs, Values

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

  Dave Ramsey

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Apology

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• If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Skills, Difficult, Honestly

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• Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32

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• Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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• The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Intellectual, Mind, Becoming

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Respect

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

  Caroline Knapp

  Pride, Passivity Is, Drug

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.261, Dial Press

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• Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Men, Good Man

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.702, Macmillan

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• You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

  P. C. Cast

  Winning, Games, Honor

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Dragon's Oath”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Acceptance, Blessing, Self

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.233, SUNY Press

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• A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Men, Reason, Conscience

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• Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Drawing, Law, Wish

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• Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

  Hafez

  Listening, Why Not, Polite

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• As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

  Lucan

  Stars, Fire, Self

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• A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

  Stephen Covey

  Fundamentals, Personal Worth, Source

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Honor, Succeed

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• It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

  Plato

  Wise, Men, Desire

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• It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Men, Good Man

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• True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.

  Josei Toda

  Gratitude, Character, Mean

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• Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Use, Endure

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