Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Stephen Covey

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

Stephen Covey

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

Stephen Covey

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Vaclav Havel

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

Tulsi Gabbard

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

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.

Robert Burns

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sylvia Earle

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

Sydney J. Harris

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Tyler Blackburn

I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.

Tyler Perry

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

Raymond Chandler

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Rick Warren

I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.

Rick Warren

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

Rick Warren

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

Trent Reznor

My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.

Sonny Perdue

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Solon

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Steve Kerr

It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

Stephen Moyer

The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.