Best integrity & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color

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

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Author:Stephen Covey

“When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.”

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Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

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Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“Integrity is the core of our character.”

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Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.”

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Author:Jack McDevitt

“You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.”

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Author:Dianna Agron

“No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.”

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Author:Sidney Mohede

“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”

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Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.”

“When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.”

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Author:Amber Heard

“[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.”

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Author:Adam Driver

“Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.”

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Author:Jim DeMint

“I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.”

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Author:James Hird

“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.”

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Author:Linus Roache

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

“If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.”

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Author:Neil Burger

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.”

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Author:Cornel West

“By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“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.”

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Author:Steve Largent

“McCain was introduced at the convention last night by his wife -- I won't say 'trophy wife' -- but she did $300,000 worth of clothes and jewelry on, no matter to the party of the little guy. But Cindy McCain talked about how his character, honor and integrity made him the exact kind of married man she was looking to pick up at a bar.”

“When I kissed a girl, nobody was around. So I didn't do it for anybody. I'm not a lesbian. I encourage anybody to try anything, just make sure you have integrity and character. It doesn't matter who anyone loves. I am for gay rights and I also have a boyfriend.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“I'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.”

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Author:Phil Morris

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