Anne Frank Quotes

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

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.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

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.

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

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

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.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

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

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

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.

I do what I think is right.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.