William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

In public, as well as private life, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured, is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy. If any man thinks he has been ridiculed, upon any of our public theatres, let him examine his actions he will find the cause, let him alter his conduct he will find a remedy

I just have to make sure I maintain my professionalism.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

I don’t see how a person can separate his public life from his private life and faith.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.