Jessica Chastain Quotes

I do what I think is right.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

Trust yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.

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

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

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