Christopher Paolini Quotes

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.