Mark Twain Quotes

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

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

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.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

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."

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

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

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

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

If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.