Integrity Quotes

Integrity is all managers and leaders have to set them apart from their peers. While execution is important, execution without integrity is merely busy activity.

I’ve scoured the planet looking for the 21 best Integrity Quotes that you can use when you’re wondering which way to go on a tough decision. I let my integrity and values guide me to make the right decisions, and I know you do too, so you’re welcome to share this with someone who may not. I’ve made it easy for you to do that by creating a presentation of the Integrity Quotes you can download, print out, and set on someone’s desk…or hang it up on your own cubicle as a reminder of how to live your life and how to manage your team.

1. “A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.” – Unknown
2. “Don’t worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.” — Laura Schlessinger
3. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” – W. Clement Stone
4. "Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching." – Anonymous
5. “Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." Don Galer
6. “One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” – Chinua Achebe
7. “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
8. “A little integrity is better than any career." Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.” – Anonymous
10. “Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied." – Eudora Welty
11. “You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.” Joseph Conrad
12. “If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.” – Moliere
13. “No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.” – Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
14. "If you have integrity, nothing else matters.  If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters." – Alan Simpson
15. "Your life may be the only Bible some people read." – Author Unknown
16. "Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to." – Author Unknown
17. "Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one." – Chinese Proverb
18. "In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you." – Warren Buffett
19. "Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions." — Maria Razumich-Zec
20. "You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." – Rwandan Proverb
21. "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What’s YOUR favorite integrity quote?