The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

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

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.