Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

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.

Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

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.

If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.