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Integrity Quotes

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.


Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.


If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.


Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.


Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.


Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.


Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.


The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.


Be honest, truthful, and altruistic. If you concern yourself with taking care of others, there'll be no room for lies, bullying, and cheating. If you're truthful you can live transparently, which will enable you to establish trust, the basis for making friends.


If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.


There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.


The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.


To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.


Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.


Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.


The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.


What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.


Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.


I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.


I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.