John Marston Quotes

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've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

If all the things the Republicans are saying about me are true, I wouldn't vote for myself either.

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.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

I've always lived my life the way I wanted and been honest with myself and everyone around me.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.