George Herbert Quotes

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

Practice yourself what you preach.

I refuse to lie to children.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

We can't allow our leaders to play the old 'do as I say, not as I do' game.

Character is long-standing habit.

Ethics to me is very important.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

All my life I have fought corruption.

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganization of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.

No matter what you do, be honest. That sticks out in Washington.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?