Edward Brooke Quotes

I am an honest, straight guy.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Only men of character are trusted.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

No matter what you do, be honest. That sticks out in Washington.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

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.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

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

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.