Notables and Quotables
Integrity
“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
- Franklin Roosevelt, American President
“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
- Warren Buffett, American Entrepreneur
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
- Samuel Johnson, English Author
“Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching and doing as you say you would do.”
- Roy T. Bennett, Zimbabwean Author
“It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.”
- Zig Ziglar, American Author
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Author
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
- Albert Einstein, American Scientist
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
- Harvey MacKay, American Businessman
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
- Frederick Douglass, American Social Reformer
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
- Abraham Lincoln, American President
“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”
- Oliver Cromwell, English Politician
