Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

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.

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

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

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

You just have to do what you know is right.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

My philosophy is different than most of the people up here. I think if you do the right thing and you lose, you still did the right thing. I think if you do less than the right thing and win, it’s morally reprehensible.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

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

We must do right and risk the consequences.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.