Michael Drayton Quotes

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

You got to do what's right.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Act your part with honor.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

I try to do the right thing.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?