
He is noble who performs noble deeds.
- Topic: Character, Honor, Integrity, Leadership
- Location: Grand Cayman
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
› Franklin Roosevelt
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
› Thomas Sowell
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
› Isaac Newton
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
› Sophocles
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
› Benedict Spinoza
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
› Ayn Rand
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
› James Allen
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
› Henry David Thoreau
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.
› Zig Ziglar
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
› Arnold Glasow
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
› William Faulkner
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
› Pythagoras
He who fears the sun will not become chief.
› African Proverb
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
› Plato
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
› Marcus Aurelius
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
› Paulo Coelho
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
› Ayn Rand
The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is
› Ronald Reagan
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
› John F. Kennedy
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
› W. Somerset Maugham
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
› Albert Schweitzer
