Quotes About Character

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.