Patrick Ness Quotes

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

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

Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

I try to do the right thing.

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

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.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.