Richard Steele Quotes

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

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

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.