Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

We believe that talented people with bad values can do far more damage than virtuous people with lesser talents.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.