David Brooks Quotes

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.

Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was a good kid.

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

What you say about me, my family, and on my social media says a lot more about your character than it does mine.

I might have made mistakes but I have always been honest.

You always gotta do the right thing: you never know who's watching.

As cricketers and professionals, with the scrutiny that is on us, we have to obviously be careful and behave ourselves.

I just have to make sure I maintain my professionalism.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Always act as if you were seen.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.