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 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Failure, Men, Greed

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• If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Principles, Worth Living, Ifs

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• A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Men, Growth, Tendencies

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

  Shakti Gawain

  Confidence, Assertive, Who You Are

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• Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dry, Wonder, Creation

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• Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

  Confucius

  Home, Land, Faithful

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Way

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

  Graeme Samuel

  Leadership, Business, Important

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• Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

  Pablo Casals

  Today, Ethics, Accepted

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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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