Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.

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

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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.

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

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

I cannot sacrifice or compromise my principles.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.

If I think something is wrong, I'm going to say it.

I've stuck by my beliefs, I'm not going to change.

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

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.