Living with Integrity Quotes

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

How shall we live so as to have the consciousness of not having lived in vain?

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, that’s the way I want to live my life. It moved me.

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

I get on stage and realize what God has given me, and not just I sing some songs and tell a couple stories, or something that God's done. It's more like, 'OK, guys. I want to encourage you to go out to this world and show love and truth.'

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.