Neal Shusterman Quotes

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.