Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Peters

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Tom Robbins

All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

Steve Largent

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Steve Fossett

Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

Stephen Covey

You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.

Stephen Covey

Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

Stephen Covey

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

Stephen Covey

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

Stephen Covey

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is ?a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

Stephen Covey

Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Stephen Covey

Exercise integrity in the moment of truth.

Stephen Covey

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

Stephen Covey

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Stephen Covey

The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

Stephen Covey

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Stephen Covey

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Stephen Covey

The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.

Thomas Merton

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

Tony Dungy

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

Tony Dungy

Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.

Tony Dungy

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Tony Dungy

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

Tommy Lee Jones

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Shirley Manson

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Shailene Woodley

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

Shakti Gawain

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Stevie Wonder

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Steven Pressfield

We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

Steven Pressfield

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Summer Glau

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

Strom Thurmond

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Steven Weber

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.