Integrity

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    1. Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams
    2. 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
    3. The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass
    4. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. — Albert Einstein
    5. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
    6. Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed. — David Jeremiah
    7. If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
    8. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. — C. S. Lewis
    9. An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. — John Locke
    10. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — John Locke
    11. Who lies for you will lie against you. — John Locke
    12. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. — George MacDonald
    13. Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are. — John C. Maxwell
    14. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
    15. Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine
    16. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. — Thomas Paine
    17. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. — Norman Vincent Peale
    18. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. — Elvis Presley
    19. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
    20. Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one. — Mark Twain
    21. It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel. — Adrian Rogers
    22. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
    23. Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical. — Zig Ziglar
    24. Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar

 

 

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