Quotes About Character

A good man who did a bad thing.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.