Melita Norwood Quotes

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

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

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.