Phillips Brooks Quotes

Responsibility educates.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

I have a strong head on my shoulders... I've always been grounded. People would think not because of who I am, but I've always been raised with that sense of morals from my dad and my mother.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I want to do things right. I really, really do.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Character is long-standing habit.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.