Shelley Moore Capito Quotes

What I learned from Barack Obama the person is that you can be a great leader and a good person at the same time and that the way to be the best kind of leader is to be decent to the people around you.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.

Everyone knows Pep Guardiola is a great professional, but getting to know him, I have realised he is an even better person.

As a captain, I have to be courageous but I also want to be nice off the pitch.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.