Brent Weeks Quotes

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

I try to do the right thing.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

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

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

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.