Learn Through Quotations

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”

“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”

“Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”

“All Ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

“Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.”

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”

“Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.”

“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.”

“Peace with honor.”