#Righteousness Quotes

“The true guide of life is to do what is right.”

“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.”

“If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”

“The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.”

“We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.”

“We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.”

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.”

“If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.”

“The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”

“Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.”

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

“It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.”

“Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.”

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

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”

“You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.”

“When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"”

“Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”

“When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.”

“Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.”

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

“It is always the right time to do the right thing.”

“Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.”

“If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?”

“So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.”

“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.”

“The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.”

“I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.”

“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.”

“The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.”

“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.”

“Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”

“The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.”

“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”

“To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.”

“Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.”

“Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.”

“Righteousness exalteth a nation.”

“I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.”

“Do what is right, though the world may perish.”

“Do the right thing because it is right.”

“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”

“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

“A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.”

“The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.”

“The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.”

“I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use”