Ability without honor is useless.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.