George Herbert Quotes

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

I was wrong to expose myself to disaster and dishonor … I was lucky to escape … I shall leave here to sacrifice my position and my life in order to make the truth known.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.