Laurence Yep Quotes

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.

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

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.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

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 just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

I'm not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I'm doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.