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"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
-- Oprah Winfrey, in Good Housekeeping

"Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity."
-- D.H. Lawrence

"The heritage of our American nation includes a profound reverence for integrity. In my view, this flows from the character of some of our earliest leaders. In one speech, characteristic of others he would make, Abraham Lincoln took a position that would end up costing him his race for US Senate vs. Stephen Douglas. The country could not survive, he charged, as a house divided, 'half-slave and half-free.' He knew the likely consequences of his words: 'I would rather be defeated with this expression in the speech…than to be victorious without it.'

The integrity that cost him the Senate seat won him the Presidency. It probably also inspired the nation to prevail in Civil War and to free the slaves. To some extent, Lincoln's integrity shaped our young nation's values and defined what it means to be American. The measure of a nation is as grand as its past and present leaders.

More lasting than a President's politics and policies is the legacy of his integrity. We are greater as a people, more powerful and successful as a nation, because of Washington, Adams and Lincoln; because of Eisenhower, Truman and Reagan.

I have found that the wages of integrity accrue to individuals as well as to nations. Individuals of integrity enjoy greater success, happiness and even health…"

-- Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts in his forward to the book, The Integrity Advantage.

"If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word you can take it to the bank. His word is good."
-- Bill McCartney

"Integrity begins with introspection; you must learn to trust and respect yourself before you can expect that others will trust and respect you."
-- Joe Tye, America’s Values Coach

"Integrity is never painless. It requires that we let matters rub up against each other, that we fully experience the tension of conflicting needs, demands, and interests, that we even be emotionally torn apart by them ... It does not seek to avoid conflict, but to reconcile it."
-- M. Scott Peck: The Different Drum

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
-- Buckminster Fuller

"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."
-- Harold Kushner: Living a Life That Matters

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
-- Samuel Johnson

"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."
-- Denis Waitley

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
-- Zig Ziglar, speaker and author