Integrity Quotes - Page 4

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.