Veronica Roth Quotes

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

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

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

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

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

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

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.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

Integrity is never painless.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

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

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!