Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

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

I focus on my own job.

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

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

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.‘

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

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

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

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.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

This is what customers pay us for – to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am not a crook.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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.

Character is power.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.