Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey HepburnI hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
Brian EnoA lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.
Robert KiyosakiTo be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine AlbrightEvery man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai LamaTo go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
PlatoConscience is a man’s compass.
Vincent Van GoghIf a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
Robert GreeneI’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
DrakeTo be is to do.
Immanuel KantCompassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur SchopenhauerThose who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea BallouIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainI believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham LincolnSpeak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeIf a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeI think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
Matthew McConaugheyVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques RousseauUnderstand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony BourdainLet us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Richard M. NixonI’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady GagaYou may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-PowellOne tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz KafkaI never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. TrumanOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleOnly on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard ShawIf you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother TeresaIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyHow could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao TzuWhoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert EinsteinWe can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.
Greta ThunbergWhen I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian EnoJustice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan QuayleThat’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry SeinfeldI’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
Matthew McConaugheyNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas CarlyleThose who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
AristotleSin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
Pope FrancisHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonWho shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander PopeWho sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da VinciTo add value to others, one must first value others.
John C. MaxwellNo man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas CarlyleThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark TwainBecause of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
Dalai LamaSweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
William ShakespeareI’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John LennonWe should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMorality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Albert EinsteinStay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.
Mr. TI know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. RockefellerI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand RussellWhere there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Joyce Meyer