Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I do what I think is right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Diety.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.