Pearl Cleage Quotes

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

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

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

When you mess up, teams wonder whether they want to put their hands on you. I respect that. They can only go by a rap sheet or a resume.

What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.