Marc Maron Quotes

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

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

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

I do what I think is right.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

The wrong is wrong and the fall of the majority in such wrong does not justify it. It is known that the right way is difficult and not all the people can follow it, but only the few distinguished for their principles.

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

My philosophy is different than most of the people up here. I think if you do the right thing and you lose, you still did the right thing. I think if you do less than the right thing and win, it’s morally reprehensible.

I refuse to take shortcuts.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.