Regina Doman Quotes

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.