Malcolm Forbes Quotes

People should be judged by the principles they espouse and the principles they betray.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

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

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Action is character.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Character is long-standing habit.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

These days to be great is to exceed on prosperity; greatness today has nothing to do with moral magnanimity.

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..