20 Top Integrity Quotes

These are 20 of the top integrity quotes I have found in my research.

As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add creditability to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.

Integrity Quotes are quotes about the importance of staying true, upright and righteous in the world today. You need to constantly remind your team of this, because temptations are many. This quotes I have chosen are specifically meant for that purpose. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate!

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
— Mark Twain

You have the right to remain silent, but you can never, repeat, never lie or shade the truth.
— Robert L. Woodrum

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
– Grenville Klesier

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
— Hannah Arendt

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
— Warren Buffet

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
— George Eliot

Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.
– Arnold Horshak

Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for doing wrong.
— God

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
— Samuel Johnson

What is left when honor is lost?
— Publilius Syrus

A liar needs a good memory.
— Quintillian

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God,
– Anonymous

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
— Benjamin Franklin

Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.
- Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
— Harry S. Truman

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
– Tom Peters

A little integrity is better than any career.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln

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