I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Women don’t try to use me.

I do not pilfer victory.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

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.‘

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

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

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

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

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

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

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

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

Character is destiny.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

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

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.