Righteous Behavior Quotes

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

In totality, I take care not be a bad influence on youngsters.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

He preaches well that lives well – that's all the divinity I can understand.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.