#integrity

"When all is said and done all anyone has left is their integrity at their core... Don't give that away too."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."

"Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets."

"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"

"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."

"Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard."

"Integrity and self trust are the two important powers that can help you to reach success."

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear."

"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."

"Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line."