Ramy Youssef Quotes

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

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

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

People should be judged by the principles they espouse and the principles they betray.