Mencius Quotes

You either have to choose your soul or you have to choose your bank.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

The hardest thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one’s principles and when it is acceptable to bend them.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

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

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

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

Of two Evils we take the less.