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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

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