Integrity Quotes

“Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.” ~ Jean-Cyril Spinetta

“What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that I can no longer believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.” ~ Stephen M. R. Covey, The Speed of Trust

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.” ~ Stephen M. R. Covey, The Speed of Trust

“My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another… My life is my message.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Stay true to yourself. The right people will find you.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it'll always get you the right ones

“We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

“Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. Remember, life is an echo. It always gets back to you. So give goodness.” ~ Unknown

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” ~ John Wooden

“Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.” ~ Chilon of Sparta

“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself… Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.” ~ Nelson Mandela

The Speed of Trust [Book]

By: Stephen M. R. Covey

From this Book: 19 Quotes

Book Overview: From Stephen R. Covey’s eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents is the essential ingredient for any high performance, successful organization. For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time killing, bureaucratic check -and- balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.

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Top 10 Quotes from The Speed of Trust!

“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

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

“Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don’t matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.” ~ Sir Ernest Shackleton

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” ~ U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” ~ Henry Ford

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” ~ Alan Simpson