Unwavering Integrity Quotes

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.