Dave Ramsey Quotes

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

Money is the only Monarch.

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

Money speaks in Utah.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

I think I am a moral man.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

Never be impressed with charisma. Look for character.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.