Integrity is so easily dismissed these days and yet the greatest asset one can build. Here are a few of my favorite quotes about integrity. For inspiration about how a business can win with it’s integrity, check out the article Bad Reviews into Best Customers.
- “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” — Warren Buffet. CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
- “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “A great [woman or] man is always willing to be little.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn’t know we had.” — Robert E. Quinn
- A great quote about integrity. “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one’s own behavior, improving one’s trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.” — Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith The Art of Waking People Up
- “He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.” — St. Gregory
