Corey Taylor Quotes

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

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

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

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.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

The government is not best which secures mere life and property -- there is a more valuable thing -- manhood.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

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.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.