Riley Keough Quotes

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

You have to stand on your beliefs.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

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.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.