Richard G. Scott Quotes

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

The just man walks in his integrity

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

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.