Robert Cecil Quotes

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

Wealth, title, office, are no recommendations to my friendship. On the contrary, great good qualities are requisite to make amends for their having wealth, title, and office.

I always tell people, 'I have more respect for somebody with no money and class than somebody who is trash and makes $1 billion.'

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

I admire President Obama's class and measure.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone - but we over-respect no one.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

I would rather have honesty and character than prestige and wealth. I can walk and ride the streets of this city, hold my head up, and look all men in the face.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that ’s never read,— To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.