Integrity Quotes - Page 5

• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self, Judgment, Virtue

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• Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Character, Looks, Reputation

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.16, Penguin

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• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "The Marquis of Lossie".

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• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Aristotle

  Moving, Waiting, Excellence

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• If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

  Henry Kravis

  Ethical, Ifs

  "Veterans Showcase Integrity as a Core Strength, First and Foremost!" by Dwayne Paro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Inspirational, Encouragement

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

  Michael Josephson

  Important, Want, Helping

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

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Stars

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• 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

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mother, May, Tests

  Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255

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• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

  William E. Gladstone

  Love, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Selfish, Creativity, Greatness

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Integrity is not what you APPEAR to be when all eyes are on you. It is who you ARE when no one is looking.

  Stormie Omartian

  Eye, Who You Are

  Stormie Omartian (1997). “The Power of a Praying Wife”, Harvest House Pub

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• Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Glasses, Balance

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, People, Silence

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wise Words

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Wisdom, Strong, Goal

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Opinion, Obstinacy

  William Cobbett (1836). “Beauties of Cobbett”, p.70

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Dream, People, Sticks

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