David Brooks Quotes

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

I am not that kind of a person who can written off.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.