Anne Hathaway Quotes

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.