Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

You must always do what you feel is right.

You just have to do what you know is right.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

I do what I think is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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.

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

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

I have only ever followed my conscience.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.