140 Inspiring Quotes On Integrity

In a world where actions often speak louder than words, integrity stands as a quiet testament to one's character. It's the unwavering commitment to ethical principles, even when no one is watching. This cherished virtue not only shapes personal honor but also fosters trust and respect in relationships, be it personal, professional, or social. In our journey through life's complexities, moments of inspiration can serve as powerful reminders of the importance of staying true to our values. Our curated collection of the top 140 inspiring quotes on integrity is designed to motivate and uplift, offering timeless wisdom from thought leaders, philosophers, and changemakers who have championed the power of authenticity and righteousness. Whether you're seeking guidance, reflection, or motivation, these quotes celebrate the essence of integrity and encourage us all to embody its principles in our everyday lives.

1. “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” - J.K. Rowling

2. “At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.” - Dag Hammarskjöld

3. “Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared.No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.” - Dag Hammarskjöld

4. “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - William James

5. “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” - Harper Lee

6. “My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.” - Alan Moore

7. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” - Oprah Winfrey

9. “But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....” - Lemony Snicket

10. “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” - Lao Tzu

11. “The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.” - Dhammapada

12. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.” - Lillian Hellman

13. “If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.” - Yogi Berra

14. “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.” - Charlotte Brontë

15. “Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.” - Patrick White

16. “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” - Eleanor Roosevelt

17. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” - Albert Einstein

18. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” - Abraham Lincoln

19. “I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.” - Cesar Millan

20. “Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.” - George Eliot

21. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” - George Eliot

22. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” - Andre Gide

23. “It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.” - Marilynne Robinson

24. “The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.” - Marcus Garvey

25. “Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.” - Omar Bradley

26. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” - Marcus Aurelius

27. “He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he valued more than himself. The Truth. To recognize and to acknowledge What Is. That was the thing which man could do, which his English could do, his beloved, his sleeping, his now defenceless English. They might be stupid, ferocious, unpolitical, almost hopeless. But here and there, oh so seldome, oh so rare, oh so glorious, there were those all the same who would face the rack, the executioner, and even utter extinction, in the cause of something greater than themselves. Truth, that strange thing, the jest of Pilate's. Many stupid young men had thought they were dying for it, and many would continue to die for it, perhaps for a thousand years. They did not have to be right about their truth, as Galileo was to be. It was enough that they, the few and martyred, should establish a greatness, a thing above the sum of all they ignorantly had.” - T.H. White

28. “and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people” - Ani DiFranco

29. “You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.” - Epictetus

30. “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” - Warren Buffett

31. “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” - Marcus Aurelius

32. “Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.” - Thomas Fuller

33. “I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” - Henry James

34. “We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.” - James E. Faust

35. “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” - Samuel Johnson

36. “Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.” - Michael Crichton

37. “Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.” - Michael Crichton

38. “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.” - Samuel Johnson

39. “Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.” - Clayton M. Christensen

40. “A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.” - Ayn Rand

41. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” - Ayn Rand

42. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity” - Tom Peters

43. “Do not make loose promises. But, when you make a promise, keep it. Be true to yourself. Be dependable. Whatever you have to do, do it the very best you can. It is not the fuss and feathers that count; it is the hard, steady effort that makes the grade.--SP 64 (SP is Studies in Priesthood, European Mission, 1930)” - John A. Widtsoe

44. “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” - James E. Faust

45. “I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless.” - Matt Baldwin

46. “I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.” - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

47. “If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.” - Joe Biden

48. “Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions. Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care. What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference. All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality. The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less.” - Carla Jo Masterson

49. “Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.” - Charles Sanders Peirce

50. “Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.” - Alan Sakowitz

51. “The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity.For this reason, he has integrity.The person of inferior integritynever loses sight of his integrity;For this reason, he lacks integrity.” - Lao Tzu

52. “Settling other people's land is an American tradition.” - Ariel Gore

53. “...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.” - George R.R. Martin

54. “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.” - Cheryl Hughes

55. “Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.” - Ayn Rand

56. “Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.” - Leonardo da Vinci

57. “Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "It was very foolish of you to attack that vile Roknari galley-man."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "And yet, I think, given the same circumstances you would do it again."Caz: "Knowing what I know now...it would be harder. But I would hope... I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need."R.B: "What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father's gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool, too, Caz?"Caz: "Oh," "I'm sure of it.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

58. “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” - Marcus Aurelius

59. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” - Anne Frank

60. “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.” - E.M. Forster

61. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” - Charlotte Brontë

62. “In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.” - Nicholas Sparks

63. “Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.” - Charles Kohlhase

64. “Never offer advice just to appear concerned.” - Jack Gardner

65. “Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself” - Tye Lewis

66. “Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.” - Charles Finch

67. “Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can't, after all, go so far afield as we might,' he hesitated, 'yes, as we might.'Eastman looked at him sourly. 'Cavenaugh, when you've practiced law in New York for twelve years, you find that people can't go far in any direction, except-' He thrust his forefinger sharply at the floor.'Even in that direction, few people can do anything out of the ordinary. Our range is limited. Skip a few baths, and we become personally objectionable. The slightest carelessness can rot a man's integrity or give him ptomaine poisoning. We keep up only be incessant cleansing operations, of mind and body. What we call character, is held together by all sorts of tacks and strings and glue. ("Consequences")” - Willa Cather

68. “Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you.Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime” - Hiromu Arakawa

69. “You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

70. “...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become....” - Brandon Sanderson

71. “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” - Socrates

72. “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

73. “The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.” - Mary Connealy

74. “If not us, then who?If not now, then when?” - John Lewis

75. “Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ” - Will Rogers

76. “Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.” - Thomas S. Monson

77. “Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.” - Greg Anderson

78. “Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so securestranquility.” - Marcus Aurelius

79. “The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)” - Tara Leigh Cobble

80. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” - J.C. Watts Jr.

81. “Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.” - Shannon Alder

82. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” - Shannon L. Alder

83. “Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.” - Heraclitus

84. “Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.” - Savo Heleta

85. “As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.” - George Alexiou

86. “Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.” - Miguel Ruiz

87. “When all is said and done all anyone has left is their integrity at their core... Don't give that away too.” - Solange nicole

88. “To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)” - Dorothy L. Sayers

89. “The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)” - Dorothy L. Sayers

90. “They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.” - Hyman G. Rickover

91. “Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.” - Elizabeth Goudge

92. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” - Shannon L. Alder

93. “Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.” - Henry Royce

94. “If Jesus were to ask me, as He did that poor demoniac in the Gospel: "What is your name?" I too would have to reply: "My name is legion, for there are many of us" (Mk 5:9). There are as many of us as there are desires, plans and regrets which we harbor, each one different from and contrary to others which pull us in opposite directions. They literally dis-tract us, drag us apart.” - Raniero Cantalamessa

95. “No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling."And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?” - Charlotte Brontë

96. “There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.” - Charlotte Brontë

97. “I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.” - Charlotte Brontë

98. “[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress.” - Héloïse

99. “[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.” - Héloïse

100. “[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist.” - Héloïse

101. “All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.” - Denis Diderot

102. “Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.” - Wil Zeus

103. “There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.” - Jack Campbell

104. “Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't.~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon” - Andrew Ashling

105. “A few people of integrity can go a long way.” - Bill Kauth

106. “You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.” - Herman Hesse

107. “The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.” - Deepak Chopra

108. “Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.” - Patrick Rothfuss

109. “God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!” - Charles H. Spurgeon

110. “Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” - Erik H. Erikson

111. “Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.” - Orrin Woodward

112. “Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.” - Shannon L. Alder

113. “Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.” - David Mitchell

114. “A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.” - Shannon L. Alder

115. “Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that's absolutely where you must stand solid.” - Ret. Gen. Peter Pace

116. “Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.” - Leila Summers

117. “Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” - John O'Donohue

118. “...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that's how it was. I just ran a grocery, she thought. I don't want this. I ain't the one to make the world right.” - Alan Heathcock

119. “Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.” - Robert McKee

120. “One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a need to talk about purpose in life, vocation, and calling. We need to provide a stronger theology of work to help them make integrated connections to their daily lives.” - David Kinnaman

121. “Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.” - Ayn Rand

122. “You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)” - Pamela Clare

123. “But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't care for money, but I never expected to meet one. Therefor I conclude that the difficulty concerns integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appauling obsession with personal integrity." - Vida Winter” - Diane Setterfield

124. “Your private self must become the same as your public self.” - John Kuypers

125. “Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.” - Bo Schembechler

126. “Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.” - Dr. Henry Cloud

127. “[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

128. “Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.” - Orrin Woodward

129. “We must hide our integrity, like we hide our love.” - UR Ananthamurthy

130. “So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen” - janis ian

131. “We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements.” - UAE Exchange

132. “I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I 'came out,' I mean that I resolved to never lie about my love for women, never deliberately pass for straight, and never deny a lover by calling her 'him.' To do so, I felt, would be to betray not only the women I desired, but my deepest self.My decision to quit meat was equally simple. Somehow, through the confluence of midseventies influences, I knew that vegetarianism was a particularly healthy way to eat. One day, quite suddenly, I realized: If I didn't need to eat meat to stay alive, then eating meat was killing for pleasure. I couldn't live with myself, wouldn't be the nonviolent person I believed myself to be, if I killed other beings--beings who had their own desires--merely to satisfy my desire for the taste of their flesh.Looking back, I see that both decisions, coming out and quitting meat, are about the interplay of desire and integrity. Sometimes integrity means being true to your desires, and sometimes integrity requires you to refuse your desires. I also notice that both decisions were about bodies and consent. A primary tenet of gay liberation is that what consenting people do with each other's bodies is nobody else's business. And, of course, eating meat is something you do to somebody else's body without their consent.” - pattrice jones

133. “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.” - Eckhart Tolle

134. “The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.” - C.S. Lewis

135. “Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.” - Pierre Ceresole

136. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” - M.H. McKee

137. “Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.” - Donna Lynn Hope

138. “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.” - Shannon L. Alder

139. “Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.” - George Alexiou

140. “Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing ideas. For me, the longer the creed the more it has been diluted, manipulated, and spoiled. The results of this creed poisoning can be seen in the behavior of its followers. We have all heard the expression, “The devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.” - Steve Maraboli