Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

I personally like Adams ... I respect him because of his personal and official integrity.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

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.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Character is power.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.

If You are among the people, gain allies as does a man worthy of trust who reaches the heart. He who reaches the heart, does not vent his belly's speech.) He will himself become a man who commands, a man of means thanks to his behavior.

The men who have led the House, whose names have become a splendid tradition to their successors, have gained prominence not through luck or by mere accident. They have had ability, at least in some degree; but more than that, they have had character.