Integrity Quotes

"Bad promises are better broken than kept."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A true action leads to the path of virtue and good deeds, and virtue paves the way of a person to Paradise, and the said person continues to speak the truth till in the sight of Allah he is named Siddiq or Truthful. Lying leads to vice, and vice leads to indecent acts and if a person goes on lying till in the sight of Allah he is named a liar."

- The Prophet (s) as reported by Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud (r) in Bukhari and Muslim

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

- Indira Gandhi

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you."

- Malcolm Forbes

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

- Franz Kafka

"The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?"

- Arabian Proverb

"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

"La Verdad Adelgaza, pero No Quiebra – The Truth May Be Stretched Thin, but It Never Breaks"

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."

- Harold S. Geneen

"Honor lies in honest toil."

- Grover Cleveland

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."

- Confucius

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."

- Confucius

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

- Confucius

"The object of the superior man is truth."

- Confucius

"Sincerity is the way of heaven."

- Confucius

"Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness."

- Confucius

"The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches."

- Confucius

"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

- Confucius

"Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be a companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it."

- Confucius

"Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself."

- Confucius

"If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them."

- Confucius

"Words are the voice of the heart."

- Confucius

"What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Obras son amores y no buenas razones."

"Borra con el codo lo que escribe con la mano."