Jose Carreras Quotes

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

If my doing the right thing will cost me my seat, they can take this job and shove it.

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.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Stand up for what you know is right.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.