Integrity Quotes

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well you will treat them well and that if they do wrong you will do wrong.'"

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'When the allurement of this life comes to a person, he borrows the good manners of others. however, when it goes away from him, it strips his good manners from him.'"

- Ali (r) as cited in the Book of Wisdom by Ahmad Sakr

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Epictetus

"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would have not mentioned these alone.'"

- Epictetus

"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid."

- Cato

"Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue."

- Zeno of Citium

"Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature."

- Chrysippus

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.’"

- Epictetus

"Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality."

- Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

"When duty calls, that is when character counts."

- William Safire

"Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending."

- Drake

"I prefer quality over flash -- that’s why I refuse to write my signature in cursive."

- Ron Swanson

"The government is a greedy piglet that suckles on a taxpayer’s teat until they have sore, chapped nipples."

- Ron Swanson

"I prefer quality over flash – that’s why I refuse to write my signature in cursive."

- Ron Swanson

"I have never lied about anything in my life. Though, I suppose you could construe camouflage as a lie."

- Ron Swanson

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticised anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best accountants don’t just balance books; they balance the scales of financial justice."

- Brian Clark

"To be the best accountant is to be the custodian of financial integrity."

- Thomas Mitchell

"To be the best accountant is to be the keeper of financial truths."

- Michael Johnson

"Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer."

- Sylvie Guillem

"The way you behave when you think you can get away with it is who you really are."

- Carly Fiorina

"We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their behavior."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

- Henry David Thoreau

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life."

- T.S. Eliot

"To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life."

- Unknown