Integrity Quotes

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

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

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“Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.”

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

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“Gold thou mayest safely touch, but if it stick
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.”

“It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.”

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.”

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

“The great enemy of integrity is not falsehood as such but … the attractiveness of foreign truths, truths that belong to others.”

“One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity.”

“Success does not necessarily involve great intellect, or great position, or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.”

“I am sure that in estimating every man’s value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”

“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

“Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose.”

“Aaron Burr was a more brilliant man than George Washington. If he had been loyal to truth, he would have been an abler man; but that which made George Washington the chief hero in our great republic was the sagacity, not of intellectual genius, but of the moral element in him.”

“A musician would not willingly consent that his lyre should be out of tune, nor a leader of a chorus that his chorus should not sing in the strictest possible harmony; but shall each individual person be at variance with himself, and shall he exhibit a life not at all in agreement with his words?”