Stevie Wonder Quotes

My future is righteousness.

Character is long-standing habit.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

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

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

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

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'