Noun
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Dwight D. Eisenhower
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. Dag Hammarskjöld
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who makes an idol of his interest makes a martyr of his integrity. Italian Proverb
Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers. Chinese Proverb