Thoughts on Integrity - Do you have it?

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching." ~ Anon

"There can be no friendship without confidence; and no confidence, without integrity” ~ Anon

"In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Integrity has no need of rules.” ~ Albert Camus

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.” ~ Ovid

“A little integrity is better than any career” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all faced with conflicting desires. No one, no matter how spiritual, can avoid the battle. Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync." ~ John Maxwell

"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be." ~ Socrates

"Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are. ~ John Maxwell

"Image is what people think we are: integrity is what we rally are." ~ John Maxwell

"The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he would never be found out." ~ Thomas Macauley

"Integrity is not a given factor in everyone’s life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives." ~ John Maxwell

"Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. We must constantly strive to keep our integrity intact. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." ~ Billy Graham