Nick Clegg Quotes

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Our ideals are our better selves.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

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.

I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

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

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Be as you wish to seem.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

The issue is not whether or not we can stand with the President. It is whether, at the end of the day, we can stand with ourselves.