Juliette Gordon Low Quotes

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.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

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

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

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.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

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.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Stand up for what you know is right.

I do what I think is right.

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

What is right is not always popular.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

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

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.