Quotes about Character
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.
— Charlie Munger
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
— James A. Garfield
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
— Confucius
[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.
— George W. Bush
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
— Euripides
Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.
— Michael Hyatt
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'
— Desmond Tutu
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
— Mark Twain
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
— George Washington