Integrity: It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain Integrity: It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge Integrity: It is the final test of a gentleman-his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ~William Lyon Phelps Integrity: It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Integrity: It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noël Coward Integrity: It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. ~Mignon McLaughlin Integrity: Just do good, don't worry about the road ahead. ~Monk Wansong Integrity: Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb Integrity: Let me be thankful first, because I never was robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourthly, because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ~Matthew Henry Integrity: Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler Integrity: Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. ~William Lloyd Garrison Integrity: Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ~Will Rogers Integrity: Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. ~Arnold H. Glasow Integrity: Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain Integrity: Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard Integrity: Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Leon Blum Integrity: My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine Integrity: My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Author Unknown Integrity: My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~Indira Gandhi Integrity: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln Integrity: Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! ~Isaac Asimov Integrity: Never rob your character to enrich your pocket. ~James Lendall Basford Integrity: Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ~Michel de Montaigne Integrity: One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb Integrity: One of the "lost arts" is that of minding one's own business. ~James Lendall Basford Integrity: Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ~Quoted in , compiled by H. Jackson Brown Integrity: Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith Integrity: People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity. ~Michael Josephson Integrity: Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy Integrity: Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford Integrity: Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke Integrity: Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce Integrity: Ride not on the devil's back to avoid walking in the mud. ~James Lendall Basford Integrity: Righteousness is easy in retrospect. ~Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Integrity: Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules. ~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook Integrity: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~Oscar Wilde Integrity: Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin — just stupid.) ~Robert A. Heinlein Integrity: Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. ~Robert Brault Integrity: Take care that no one hates you justly. ~Publilius Syrus Integrity: The deepest, purest, sweetest happiness, the peace which passeth all understanding, the joy that is unspeakable, comes from no outward state, it depends on no earthly condition. It springs from the simple, bare consciousness of rectitude in the soul. God has made every man the guardian of his own happiness by making him the keeper of his own conscience. Only be at peace with that clear, calm voice which whispers duty in the soul, and there is no power on earth that can make you miserable. ~Daniel March Integrity: The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn Integrity: The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. ~B.C. Forbes Integrity: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay Integrity: The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~G.B. Shaw Integrity: The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach Integrity: The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown Integrity: The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter Integrity: The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb Integrity: The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire Integrity: The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Integrity: The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ~Blaise Pascal Integrity: The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Integrity: The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale Integrity: The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ~Henry David Thoreau Integrity: The world is becoming more complicated every day, my fellow citizens. No man ought to be foolish enough to think that he understands it all. And, therefore, I am glad that there are some simple things in the world. One of the simple things is principle. Honesty is a perfectly simple thing. ~Woodrow Wilson Integrity: There are loose screws in the character of some men which invite the immediate application of a large moral screwdriver. ~James Lendall Basford Integrity: There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. ~Frederick W. Faber Integrity: There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. ~Robert Brault Integrity: There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne Integrity: There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb Integrity: There is one thing more important than anything else, and that is that within there should be a citadel which none can assail, a fortress that can not be carried by assault, that is proof against any kind of attack; and that is the citadel of self-respect.... A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he is always in good company. ~Charles E. Hughes Integrity: To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius Integrity: To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will Durant Integrity: Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo Integrity: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein Integrity: Values are good things only if they are good values. ~Michael Josephson Integrity: We are sinners by nature, but much more so by practice. ~James Lendall Basford Integrity: We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith Integrity: We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act. ~Michael Josephson Integrity: We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Integrity: We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Integrity: What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene Integrity: What you allow, you encourage. ~Michael Josephson Integrity: When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~Attributed to Abraham Lincoln Integrity: When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ~Max Lerner Integrity: Whether you end up in heaven or hell, it's not God's plan it's your own. Integrity: Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan Integrity: You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb Integrity: You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods Integrity: You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole. ~Michael Josephson Integrity: You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ~Somerset Maugham Integrity: You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault Integrity: You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens Integrity: You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. ~Robert Brault Integrity: Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown