Integrity Quotes

"I chose to speak truth. Even when it's uncomfortable. Even when it leaves people feeling uneasy. When you speak truth, people won't always walk away feeling good—and sometimes you won't feel so great about the reaction you receive. But at least all parties will walk away knowing it was an honest conversation."

- Kamala Harris

"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that."

- Anita Hill

"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."

- Tupac Shakur

"Let your yes be yes and your no be no."

- Jesus

"Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."

- Jesus

"It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person."

- Jesus

"Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity."

- Lise Meitner

"When I retire, I want to be remembered as a good guy."

- Lionel Messi

"I’m more worried about being a good person than the world’s best player."

- Lionel Messi

"The right to search for truth also implies that one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."

- Albert Einstein

"The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you."

- Michael Ventura

""If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?""

- George "Rush" St. Pierre

"Show class, have pride and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

- Sophocles

"[There is] no nobler motive for entering public life then the resolution not to be ruled by wicked men."

- Cicero

"Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you’ll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself."

- Janet Reno

"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."

- Learned Hand

"Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."

- Irish Blessing

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer."

- Diogenes

"We go through our days responding and reacting, but it’s rare to really pause and ask: Is this thing I’m about to do consistent with what I believe? Or, better: Is this the kind of thing the person I would like to be should do? The work of living is to set standards and then not compromise them."

- Ryan Holiday

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

- Epictetus

"The true test of a soldier is not how many battles you win, but how you conduct yourself in times of peace."

"Do the right thing even when no one is looking"

"I promise. And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise"

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter."