Integrity is the quiet backbone of a life. Not perfection, not performance, just steady alignment between what we believe and what we do. These voices honor the kind of character that holds, even when nobody is watching. ✨

As Samuel Johnson once said, Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Above all else a leader must possess integrity. Subordinates and peers count on a leader to do what the leader says will be done. When doubt enters, a team can freeze. ~ Mitchell L. Rowland

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life. That happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of moral integrity, the proof and result of loyalty to the achievement of values. ~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Integrity needs no rules. ~ Albert Camus

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. ~ Benedict De Spinoza

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing. Either you have integrity or you don’t. ~ Peter Scotese, In Pursuit of Leadership

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be almost useless, since the chief purpose of virtue is helping us bear, with patience, the injustice of our fellows. ~ Jean Baptiste Molière

The most important persuasion tool in your entire arsenal is integrity. ~ Zig Ziglar

Many people feel ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. Yet hesitation follows, waiting for the other person to make the first move. The other person waits too. ~ Marian Anderson

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is not something grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something all of us, at all ages, keep striving for. ~ Harold S. Kushner

A business is seldom, if ever, built up except on lines of strictest integrity. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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 R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A life lived with integrity, even without the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ~ Denis Waitley

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the Strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~ Keshavan Nair