This document contains a collection of quotes related to integrity, leadership, and other topics. Some of the quotes discuss the importance of integrity, with many emphasizing that integrity is the most important quality for an individual or leader. Other quotes provide advice on leadership, such as boosting employee self-esteem, gaining people's confidence by being in control, and lifting people's vision. The collection also includes quotes on courage, service to others, taking risks, and wisdom.
1. Quotes On Integrity & Other Interesting Matters
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan Simpson
“Ethical values are child’s play, not rocket science.” Jon Huntsman Sr.
”Integrity has no need of rules.” Albert Camus
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is
possible" Dwight D. Eisenhower
”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it
or not.” Oprah Winfrey
”A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in
whose light others may follow in the years to come.” Denis Waitley
"Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's perception. The character
of a man, the integrity, that's who you are." Steve Alford
“Someone who has witnessed misconduct has an unmistakable obligation to act.” National
Academy of Sciences, 1995
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and
loyalty.” Zig Ziglar
"Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are
on the same side." Zig Ziglar
”Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is
your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you
know he never will.” John D. MacDonald
”The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader
and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” --Brian Tracy
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Walt Disney
“One man with courage makes a majority.” Andrew Jackson
2. “A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty and the importance of turning around
three times before lying down.” Robert Benchley
"Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteemof their personnel. If people
believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton
"The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure
of an organization." Fred Fiedler and Martin Chemers
"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without
the strategy." Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react.
If you're in control, they're in control." Tom Landry
"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a
higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." --Peter F. Drucker
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of
destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is,
What are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” WilliamShedd
“No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.” John
Andrew Holmes
”Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
“We mutually pledge to each other our lives our futures and our sacred honor.” Thomas
Jefferson
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” Linus Pauling
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Japanese proverbs
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" Albert Einstein
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Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence
forever. Psalm 41:12
And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he
led them. Psalm 78:72
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked
paths will be found out. Proverbs 10:9