Socrates Quotes

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

I try to do the right thing.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.