Suze Orman Quotes

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

I do what I believe.

You have to do what you believe in.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I stand by what I believe in, I'm not afraid to speak up for what I think is right.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.