Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

You got to do what's right.

You must do right before you feel good.

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

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.

Even though I'm young, I really try to do the right thing.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

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

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.