A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

A man’s character is his fate.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.