Mark Twain Quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

I try to do the right thing.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.