John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.