Edgar Guest Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, because if I feel ashamed, I'm not going to do it in the first place.

Just stay true to myself. That's not even my goal. That's what you always have to do, 'cause at the end of the day when the cameras are off and you put your phone down, you got to live with yourself, be comfortable and sleep at night with the decisions you've made so I'm just always myself unapologetically.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

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

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

I know I must be true to myself.

I know who I am. When you get comfortable with yourself like that and you know you're doing the right thing, you can take a lot of crap.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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

I don't like to talk much, even when people speak bad about me. Inside me, I say, 'Why do they have to think of me that way?' But I know how I am. My objective is not that people follow me, but I'm happy that they do.

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

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.