Suzy Kassem Quotes

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.