Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

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

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

I try to do the right thing.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

The memory of a good deed lives.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.