Douglas Conant Quotes

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

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

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

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.

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 key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

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.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

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

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules