Rosie O'Donnell Quotes

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

I'm a good guy.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

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 greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

You're only as good as your values.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

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

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.