Peter Drucker Quotes

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

The just man walks in his integrity

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

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.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

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.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.