Thomas Jefferson Quotes

As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

I do what I think is right.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

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.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

You just have to do what you know is right.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

A man's character is his fate.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

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

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the guy on TV be that or someone who doesn't know me at all, then I think that's a much better way to live.

I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.