Germaine de Staël Quotes

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

I'd like to be known for my character.

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.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

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

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

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

God knows I'm a good guy, I'm known in the industry as a good guy. I'm not known to be a foul, evil dude that you've got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

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.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.