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Quotes About Righteousness

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.
~ Tony Dungy
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
It is always the right time to do the right thing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
~ Booker T. Washington
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
~ Aristotle
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
~ Meir Kahane
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The time is always right to do right
~ Nelson Mandela
The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live; and the earlier you become wise and good, the more of happiness you secure.
~ Anne Bronte
The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.
~ Anne Bronte
This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else's for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.
~ Anne Frank
Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.
~ Anne Perry
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.
~ Anne Rice
I am not time's fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape, nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong. I know what I do, and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer. Do with it what you will.
~ Anne Rice
Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
8 Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice. 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the Lorddetermines his steps.
~ Selwyn Hughes
You have to take a stand when things aren't right.
~ Sharon G. Flake
How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.
~ David B. Haight
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
~ David O. McKay
God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.
~ Michael S. Heiser
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
~ Publilius Syrus
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.
~ Richard G. Scott
Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.
~ Sathya Sai Baba