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Integrity Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.”

Ivan Turgenev

Boundaries, Voice, Defiance, Integrity, Speech

2. “The first thing is character.”

J.P. Morgan

Character, Integrity, Values, Principle, Trust

3. “I feel bound in honour when I reorganise a property and am morally responsible for its management, to protect it – and I generally do protect it.”

J.P. Morgan

Honor, Responsibility, Management, Integrity, Trust

4. “Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it… Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.”

J.P. Morgan

Trust, Money, Integrity, Finance, Reliability

5. “I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.”

J.P. Morgan

Honesty, Integrity, Truth, Ethics, Trust

6. “I’ll do business with anyone, but I’ll only go sailing with gentlemen.”

J.P. Morgan

Business, Trust, Relationships, Integrity, Discretion

7. “Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.”

J.P. Morgan

Honesty, Truth, Integrity, Transparency, Principle

8. “The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.”

J.P. Morgan

Morality, Integrity, Honesty, Ethics, Character

9. “Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.”

John D. Rockefeller

Character, Integrity, Success, Values, Reputation

10. “I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.”

John D. Rockefeller

Integrity, Character, Promise, Trust, Values

11. “Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.”

John D. Rockefeller

Character, Integrity, Success, Self-Improvement, Growth

12. “Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

John D. Rockefeller

Integrity, Leadership, Reputation, Honesty, Influence

13. “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”

John D. Rockefeller

Action, Words, Integrity, Accountability, Character

14. “The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wisdom, Actions, Integrity, Truth, Experience

15. “Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”

Andrew Carnegie

Self-Improvement, Motivation, Integrity, Determination, Focus

16. “All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.”

Andrew Carnegie

Honor, Integrity, Responsibility, Consequences, Morality

17. “There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire’s money.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Morality, Power, Integrity, Society

18. “A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.”

Andrew Carnegie

Integrity, Business, Success, Leadership, Morality

19. “Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”

Andrew Carnegie

Focus, Integrity, Success, Business, Mindset

20. “The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”

Andrew Carnegie

Integrity, Strength, Morality, Principles, Leadership

21. “Strong men don’t compromise and principles should never be compromised.”

Andrew Carnegie

Strength, Principles, Integrity, Leadership, Character

22. “I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.”

Andrew Carnegie

Success, Integrity, Business, Quality, Work

23. “Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.”

Guy Kawasaki

Failure, Success, Ethics, Integrity, Growth

24. “Don’t ask people to do something you wouldn’t.”

Guy Kawasaki

Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Fairness, Values

25. “Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”

Margaret Fuller

Honesty, Policy, Life, Politics, Integrity

26. “Be what you would seem to be.”

Margaret Fuller

Authenticity, Character, Truth, Integrity, Identity

27. “It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Integrity, Wisdom, Honesty, Strength

28. “Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.”

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Genius, Individuality, Originality, Integrity

29. “Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.”

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Honesty, Reality, Integrity, Clarity

30. “While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.”

Margaret Fuller

Freedom, Nobility, Integrity, Society, Morality

31. “Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.”

Steven Wright

Creativity, Comedy, Value, Integrity, Ideas

32. “When things go wrong, apologize. Do not ruin an apology with an excuse.”

Ankur Warikoo

Apology, Accountability, Sincerity, Responsibility, Integrity

33. “Simplest way of building trust? Do what you say you will do! EVERY SINGLE TIME.”

Ankur Warikoo

Trust, Consistency, Integrity, Action, Reliability

34. “It’s easy to gossip about a colleague. It’s the right thing to understand their point of view.”

Ankur Warikoo

Gossip, Understanding, Empathy, Integrity, Relationships

35. “Do not let what others did to you affect what you do to others.”

Ankur Warikoo

Actions, Influence, Integrity, Choice, Kindness

36. “Commitments are nothing if not backed up with actions.”

Ankur Warikoo

Commitment, Action, Integrity, Reliability, Trust

37. “You do not become indispensable by wanting to be indispensable. You become indispensable by showing up and doing the hard things even when no one is watching.”

Ankur Warikoo

Value, Effort, Consistency, Integrity, Indispensability

38. “If being nice to people supersedes being truthful to people, you are not an effective leader.”

Ankur Warikoo

Leadership, Honesty, Kindness, Effectiveness, Integrity

39. “How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves. It is rare almost impossible, for a mean, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted person to truly love themselves.”

Ankur Warikoo

Self-love, Behavior, Reflection, Kindness, Integrity

40. “How you treat someone who has nothing to offer defines your value system.”

Ankur Warikoo

Kindness, Values, Integrity, Character, Respect

41. “If I can't trust you, it doesn't matter how smart you are.”

Ankur Warikoo

Trust, Intelligence, Reliability, Relationships, Integrity

42. “Trust is very much a part of our democracy.”

Jimmy Carter

Trust, Democracy, Society, Integrity, Governance

43. “To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.”

Jimmy Carter

Truth, Integrity, Relationships, Self, Others

44. “I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they’re elected, to preserve the peace.”

Jimmy Carter

Truth, Peace, Politics, Leadership, Integrity

45. “I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.”

Jimmy Carter

Honesty, Leadership, Integrity, Politics, Trust

46. “Do yourself what you wish others to do.”

Ramakrishna

Action, Responsibility, Integrity, Kindness, Example

47. “I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.”

Jack Ma

Media, Fairness, Journalism, Objectivity, Integrity

48. “Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.”

Jack Ma

Business, Ethics, Integrity, Strategy, Trust

49. “I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.”

Jack Ma

Leadership, Respect, Integrity, Success, Mindset

50. “My actions are my only true belongings.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Actions, Responsibility, Integrity, Ownership, Self

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