Laura Linney Quotes

I admire traits in people. I 'respect' certain things about them but I think that word gets thrown around too much.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

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

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.