Florence Nightingale Quotes

Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

That's something I've prided myself on: doing exactly what I tell people when I'm running.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

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.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

I never did anything dishonest.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.