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  • I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.239, Algora Publishing
  • 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.

    "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

    'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41
  • 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 (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin
  • Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

    Country   Mind   Moral  
    NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
  • Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

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  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

  • The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

    NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
  • Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  • The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

    "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.
  • It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press
  • I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

  • No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin
  • Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

  • If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

    William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189
  • Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
  • Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press
  • Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

  • Do the right thing because it is right.

    Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press
  • The time is always right to do what is right.

    "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.
  • Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

    H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

    Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.150, Univ of California Press
  • We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

    Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.
  • In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  • Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

  • Have the courage to face the truth

    Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

    "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.
  • Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  • Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

    FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 07, 2014
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