Robert E. Lee 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.

I do what I think is right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

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

You just have to do what you know is right.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

Sometimes you've got to do things you don't want to do. Doing the right thing is not always comfortable; it doesn't always feel good.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Stand up for what you know is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.