Mark Wahlberg Quotes

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

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

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

I want to do things right. I really, really do.

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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

I have tried so hard to do right.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

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

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient. At that moment, honestly, I had grave doubts as to my ability to interact on such a level. I wondered if I could ever become the human I hoped to be.

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.