Abraham Lincoln Quotes

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

If you draw [red] lines and then don't respect them, you diminish your credibility.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Trust is built with consistency.

I want my clients to trust me.

I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

You can trust Charlie Crist.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.

The last thing we want is to make people think we're going back on our word.

Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.