Mark Twain Quotes

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I have to do what's right.

I do what I think is right.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

You just have to do what you know is right.

I have never and never will do anything for the sake of popularity; he that steers by any other compass than his own sense of duty may be popular, but cannot be an honest and ... useful public servant.

The issue is not whether or not we can stand with the President. It is whether, at the end of the day, we can stand with ourselves.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

Stay true to your integrity, and if you're doing something that you feel like doesn't represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you're doing something that doesn't make you feel good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.