Jack Nicholson Quotes

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

I don't cheat.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

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.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

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

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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.