Terry O'Quinn Quotes

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.

I don't know how to play evil.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.