Integrity Quotes

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- Bell Hooks

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."

- Beret Guidera

"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty."

- Susan B. Anthony

""The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.""

- Socrates

"The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it."

- Pat Summitt

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue."

- Jimmy Carter

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day, someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well."

- Carl Lewis

"I never smile unless I mean it."

- Donny Osmond

"My principles are more important than the money or my title."

- Muhammad Ali

"We must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them."

- Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

- George Washington

"Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line."

- Ray Lewis

"There came a situation in my life, to bribe or to be imprisoned, even if the second option was to be hanged, write it in my funeral, I had never opted corruption, bribe, and violence in my life"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any"

- Erik Russell

"Rather let us have men whose manhood is only a continuation of their boyhood; natural characters still - such that are able and fertile for heroic action; and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

- John Steinbeck

"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

"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."

- William Hague

"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

- Michael J. Fox

"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."

- Roy T. Bennett

"A cowboy’s promise is as strong as a good rope."

"A great safety culture: when people continue to work safely, and do the right thing, even when no one is watching."

"Safety is not just a matter of compliance – it is a matter of conscience."

- Unknown

"Do What is Right Not What is Easy."