Tucker Max Quotes

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

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

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Intentions count in your actions.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven