“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.“Integrity has no need of rules.”
ALBERT CAMUS“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.”
JOHN FELLOWS AKERS“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON“Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.”
DR. WILLIAM CLAIRE MENNINGER“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
AYN RAND“...all true fame...is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON“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“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.”
JEFFERY BRYANT“A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.”
UNKNOWN“Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.”
DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER“Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers...”
CECIL BEATON“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“When you tackle a challenge that you cannot even fathom tackling—when you accomplish that, the amount of integrity and the will and the heart that you'll get from from that experience is what will set you up for your life.”
MARLON SHIRLEY