Righteous Actions Quotes

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

We must become just be doing just acts.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.