Rand Paul Quotes

If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

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."

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

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

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

I'd like to be known for my character.

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

"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.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

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.

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

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.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

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

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.