John C. Maxwell Quotes

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

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

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.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

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

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

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.

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

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

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.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

I'd like to be known for my character.