How you demonstrate and value your integrity reveals a big part of your personality. Others can only perceive you in a certain way, but what you do without being seen certainly matters to your authentic self. So choose the honorable path with no compromise with these 161 integrity quotes.
Integrity Quotes
1. Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. – C. S. Lewis
2. A life lived with integrity, even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. – Denis Waitley
3. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. – Ayn Rand
4. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them. – Nicole Guillaume
5. Integrity is making sure that the things you say and the things you do are in alignment. – Katrina Mayer
6. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. – Spencer Johnson
7. Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are. – John C. Maxwell
8. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching and doing as you say you would do. – Roy T. Bennett
9. If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. – Henry Kravis
10. Integrity is the ability to accept one’s past choices and actions and go forth and act in accordance with one’s deepest values from within. – Lynne Namka
11. Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority. – Richard Carlson
12. Integrity reveals beauty. – Thomas Leonard
13. Integrity is your destiny. It is the light that guides your way. – Plato
14. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. Develop your character so that you are a person of integrity. – Peter Cain
16. Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity. – Job 31:6
17. The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. – Bob Marley
18. With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. – Zig Ziglar
19. Integrity is the essence of everything successful. – R. Buckminster Fuller
20. Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot
21. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. – W. Clement Stone
22. The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. – Scott Hamilton
23. Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
24. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. – James E. Faust
25. People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach. – David A. Bednar
26. Integrity is conforming reality to our words – in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. – Stephen Covey
27. Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will. – John D. MacDonald
28. Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for. – Harold S. Kushner
29. Integrity is the core of our character. – L. Lionel Kendrick
30. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. – Charles Simmons
31. May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances. – Thomas S. Monson
32. Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. – Barbara De Angelis
33. Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage. – Tony Dungy
34. Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home. – Rachel Naomi Remen
35. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness. – Napoleon Hill
36. Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. – Nathaniel Branden
37. Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want. – Michael Josephson
38. You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. – Alan Cohen
39. Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up. – Rick Warren
40. Integrity simply means not violating one’s own identity. – Erich Fromm
41. Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity. – Charles R. Swindoll
42. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. – Alec Douglas-Home
43. The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life. – Atul Gawande
44. Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed. – David Jeremiah
45. Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. – Orrin Woodward
46. Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for? – DeVon Franklin
47. Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation – is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively. – Simon Soloveychik
48. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson
49. Excellence is the result of habitual integrity. – Lennie Bennet
50. You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it. – Betty White
51. One person of integrity can make a difference. – Elie Wiesel
52. Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. – Chris Karcher
53. There is no higher value in our society than integrity. – Arlen Specter
54. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. – Chinua Achebe
55. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey
56. Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions. – Maria Razumich-Zec
57. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. – Junius
58. Integrity is not something that you should have to think about…nor consider doing…but something in the heart that is already done. – Doug Firebaugh
59. It takes courage to create a meaningful life of integrity. It also requires good company. And practice. – Shelly Francis
60. One of your most prized possessions is integrity; if this is you, then you should never compromise it. – Byron Pulsifer
61. All believers must guard the heart and the mind and strive to walk before Christ and with each other in integrity. – David Alley
62. Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails. – Earl Nightingale
63. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
64. Integrity is the ingredient that will enable you to forge rapidly ahead on the highway that leads to success. It advertises you as being an individual who will always come through. Whatever you say you will do, do it even if you have to move heaven and earth. – Mary Kay
65. Integrity lies in, doing what one speaks; speaking what one does. – M. K. Soni
66. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity. – Criss Jami
67. A few people of integrity can go a long way. – Bill Kauth
68. Honesty creates integrity. Integrity creates inner peace. – PJ Ferguson
69. Integrity is not a laughing matter but a serious issue, If a man cannot account for how a dollar committed to his hands was spent, don’t expect he will be able to account for a million dollar. – Bamigboye Olurotimi
70. If ‘character’ had a body…’integrity’ would be it’s spinal cord and ‘humility’ it’s heart. – Mamur Mustapha
71. When your words and actions are unified you radiate a sense of integrity. – Daphne Michaels
72. There’s a direct correlation between integrity and results. – Frank Sonnenberg
73. Integrity is the only path where you will never get lost. – Mike Maples Jr
74. Integrity is the thing that binds together all that is good within us as a means of overcoming all that is bad around us. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
75. Define the integrity of every individual by the battles he/she decided to fight first. – Sameh Elsayed
76. Integrity is the only thing in life a person can truly call their own. You can have your freedom, your fortunes, your loved ones taken away by others; but only person that can take away your integrity is you. – Joshua Paul Anderson
77. I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price. – Mark Lawrence
78. We can teach everything, but we can’t teach integrity. We can’t teach integrity, but we can lead by example. – Jerry Oche
79. It’s possible to possess great integrity and be wrong. To do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Integrity is—it’s about being true to what you believe is true and good. – Eileen Wilks
80. Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control. – Robert Vanleeuwen
81. Where there is no integrity, there is no unity. – Richie Norton
82. Your integrity is your personal code of honor and has the power to build your reputation or destroy it, establish credibility or crumble it—in one swift move. – Susan C. Young
83. Anything that costs you your integrity is too expensive. – Jeffrey Fry
84. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending. – Richelle E. Goodrich
85. Integrity is something we show, not proclaim. – Aaron Lauritsen
86. When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn’t an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity. – Mark Batterson
87. Don’t compromise your integrity; whatever you gain won’t be worth as much as what you lose. – Aaron Dennis
88. The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term – and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies “wholeness.” These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. “Am I whole?” “Are there parts of my character that are lacking?” – Josh Hatcher
89. Consistently doing what you say you will do is the foundation of integrity. – Skip Prichard
90. Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance. – Donna Lynn Hope
91. Integrity is the ability of being honest and having strong moral principles and values, which reflect in our character.
Decide to work in integrity and uprightness of hearts that is the price to be paid for you to realise your vision. – Prince Akwarandu
92. You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. – Joseph Conrad
93. Every person has a different view of another person’s image. That’s all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that’s who you are. – Steve Alford
94. Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress. – Rex Tillerson
95. Calamity is the test of integrity. – Samuel Richardson
96. Stay true to your integrity, and if you’re doing something that you feel like doesn’t represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you’re doing something that doesn’t make you feel good, you probably shouldn’t be doing it. – Rumer Willis
97. Integrity has no need of rules. – Albert Camus
98. Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don’t sell out their friends. – Sandra Bullock
99. The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what’s really inside, it’s just not going to be there. – Herbie Hancock
100. Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions. – David Robinson
101. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. ‘Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.’ – Kenneth Chenault
102. If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it’s OK. It’s when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside. – Bonnie Hunt
103. Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. – Oliver Cromwell
104. If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong. That’s what I tell my kids, anyway. – George Foreman
105. If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters. – Harvey Mackay
106. Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth. – Jay Abraham
107. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. – Don Galer
108. Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What’s in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do. – Morris Mandel
109. Integrity never goes out of style. – Jim George
110. Our character … is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. – George Santayana
111. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way. – Heraclitus
112. Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. – Eudora Welty
113. In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want. – Debbie Ford
114. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. – Aberjhani
115. Integrity is holding fast to our convictions regardless of the consequences and never compromising our ideals or values, even if it affects the bottom line. – Gail Lynne Goodwn
116. Integrity – It is not what we profess in public, but where we walk and what we practice in secret that gives us integrity. – Sir Francis Bacon
117. There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong. – Marvin Williams
118. Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience. – James E. Faust
119. If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority. – Israelmore Ayivor
120. Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right. – Tony Dungy
121. Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail. – Howard Schultz
122. Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all. – John Woolman
123. The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest. – Sam Storms
124. Winning is nice if you don’t lose your integrity in the process. – Arnold Horshak
125. Professional integrity matters. We are the sum of our deeds – good and bad… – Lisa Chakrabarti
126. The operative word beyond quality is integrity. – Elihu Edelson
127. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. – Ovid
128. The only goal in life is to live up to your own integrity. This you should strive for regardless of the approval of others… My integrity must acknowledge all my contradictions. – Suzanne Partridge
129. Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built. – Brian Tracy
130. Confounding people’s expectations was a way to maintain integrity. – Lindsey Buckingham
131. The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It’s the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity. – Charles Kennedy
132. Every man should wrap himself up in the mantle of his own integrity. – Horace
133. Integrity is a life that does what it does even when no one is looking. Integrity is the transparent soul, the one who sees himself honestly, and shows himself honestly. – Dana C. Neal
134. Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. – William Cobbett
135. When uncompromising integrity is our guide, success is authentic. – Vickie L. Milazzo
136. Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it, or you don’t. – Peter Scotese
137. Integrity in word and deed is the backbone of character. – Samuel Smiles
138. Integrity, as an abstract principle, has innumerable advantages over cunning and duplicity; it requires no thought or effort to maintain it in the eyes of the world, before whom it shines brilliantly of itself, while the latter require constant accumulations to preserve appearances. – J. R. Darley
139. Integrity in youth is almost certain to become wisdom and honor in old age. – H. W. Shaw
140. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. – C.H. Spurgeon
141. Integrity is the consistent harmony of convictions and conduct… The opposite, of course is hypocrisy… Integrity is having an untarnished moral character both publicly and when no one else is around. – Jerry Wragg
142. Integrity characterizes the entire person, not just part of him. He is righteous and honest through and through. He is not only that inside, but also in outer action. – Kent Hughes
143. If you choose to be a person of integrity, you have no choice when it comes time to honor your word. To be in integrity you must apply cost/benefit analysis to giving your word and you must never apply cost/benefit analysis to honoring your word. – Werner Erhard
144. Integrity is a virtue which defines the depth of life. – Debasish Mridha
145. Even if it’s not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement. – Andrena Sawyer
146. Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions. – Billy Graham
147. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is. – Scott K. Edinger
148. Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility. – Charles F. Glassman
149. Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free. – Shannon L. Alder
150. Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions. – Stephen Lovegrove
151. He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all. – Irving Stone
152. Integrity delivers better lives. – Jose Angel Gurria
153. Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential. – Max De Pree
154. Integrity gives. It is not a taker. – Johnny Hunt
155. Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity. – William Ellery Channing
156. In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity. – Billie Jean King
157. Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring. – Pam Brown
158. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present. – Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
159. Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. – Tamara Ecclestone
160. You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life. – Chris Hanburger
161. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard. – Nicholas Sparks