Khalil Gibran Quotes

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Do not follow a multitude to do evil.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.