Jane Fonda Quotes

But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.

I never in my life and felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

In your heart you know he's right.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

If your values don't alienate anyone, it is just platitude.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.