Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.

Just do the best to do things the right way.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.