John C. Maxwell Quotes

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I am by and large an honest person, I have nothing to hide.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I am an honest, straight guy.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

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.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.