Welcome to Righteous Quotes, a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking words that resonate with the essence of righteousness. In a world often clouded by chaos and confusion, these quotes serve as beacons of clarity, guiding us towards moral integrity and noble actions. Whether drawn from ancient texts, spoken by revered leaders, or penned by contemporary thinkers, each quote encapsulates the timeless wisdom of righteousness, urging us to strive for goodness in our thoughts, words, and deeds.
Throughout history, righteousness has been upheld as a fundamental virtue, embodying principles of justice, fairness, and compassion. It is the compass that steers us towards ethical behavior and motivates us to stand up for what is right, even in the face of adversity. In the words of righteous individuals past and present, we find echoes of courage, integrity, and the unwavering commitment to uphold truth and righteousness in all aspects of life. As you explore the quotes curated on this page, may they ignite a spark within you to cultivate righteousness in your own journey, and inspire you to make a positive difference in the world. Now, without further ado, let us delve into the profound wisdom encapsulated in these righteous quotes below.
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. James Otis
During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). Julie Burchill
People are three-dimensional. They’re not good or bad. They’re not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things. David Harbour
Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of the ballot box. Mollie Hemingway
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. John Piper
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! Ivan Turgenev
My 1974 album ‘Mind Over Matter’ was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation. Robert Klein
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. John Berger
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God’s righteous Kingdom. Thomas Traherne
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge. Hakeem Olajuwon
Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn’t work a room like Abbe Lane. Audrey Meadows
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. Bill Medley
My opinion of covers is that unless you’re going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it’s gonna get put up against the old one, and you’re gonna lose. It’s like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers’ ‘Loving Feeling’ or Hall and Oates’ ‘Loving Feeling?’ Glenn Danzig
We are not disqualified or bad people trying to be good. We are holy, righteous, and redeemed. Sometimes, we spend more time on what we used to be and not who we are now. Bart Millard
Sometimes people’s spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don’t share their beliefs – in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It’s very dangerous – the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. Pema Chodron
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. Martin Luther
Cold water is merciless, but righteous. Wim Hof
This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous. Richard Coles
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee. Christopher Love
The gods behold all righteous actions. Ovid
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. Thomas S. Monson
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. Wole Soyinka
The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can’t be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world… that is not smart. Benny Hinn
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. Cole Younger
People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can’t do it effectively unless they feel that there’s a righteous power behind what they’re doing. You’re entitled to lie because the end justifies the means. Alex Gibney
My hair is God’s aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own – ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him. Don King
I definitely consider myself a Christian. There’s things that I believe in, there’s things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that. Big Sean
Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible. Russell M. Nelson
Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy. Monica Johnson
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jesus Christ
The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they’d yell out, ‘That’s righteous, brother!’ and that’s how we got our name. Bill Medley
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. Buddha
You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. Sheri L. Dew
How do you play ‘righteous’? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don’t really play a quality. Oscar Isaac
I am righteous and righteously indignant, the Tea Party is righteously indignant, and our goal is to not just save the country, but quite frankly, if America goes, so goes the world, so in our desire to save the country, we are trying to save the world. Andrew Breitbart
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song. Curtis Mayfield
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. Theodor Herzl
To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts. Joseph B. Wirthlin
I’ve always said it’s easier for bands to make a hard stance – like, we don’t do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah – when you’ve sold billions of records. It’s super-easy to be righteous when you’re rich. Brian Fallon
The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like ‘Lovin’ Feelin.’ Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n’ roll, and then, boy, it became something else. Bill Medley
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state – I want Japanese people to accept such European values. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others. James E. Faust
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. Sheri L. Dew
There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they’re enacting out evil principles, but they don’t believe that that’s what they’re doing. Cody Fern
So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing. Stephen J. Cannell
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. Sheri L. Dew
I don’t know if I’m so righteous. Jessica Brown Findlay
And I think that’s righteous, I think that’s what parents want to know. They want to know what’s going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that’s what this law does. Margaret Spellings
Iggy Pop has a voice that’s somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don’t know how he does what he does. Kate Christensen
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. Ezra Taft Benson
Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve. Roseanne Barr
Don’t be righteous and a liar at the same time – I have a problem with that. Nick Viall
When the Left agitates over government policies, it’s considered righteous anger. When the Right – and much of the center – agitate, it’s painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane. Monica Crowley
I’ve had a righteous streak since as long as I can remember. I never tolerated bullying from kids or authority, no matter the case. I got into trouble for calling things how I saw it in my early years at Catholic school, but I couldn’t help myself. Tara Stiles
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. Christopher Hitchens
As I’ve gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. Ira Sachs
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. Bette Midler
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew. Gary Zukav
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference. David Jeremiah
And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That’s how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living. Warren Jeffs
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. Joseph Butler
Nature is so merciless – but so righteous. Wim Hof
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. William Jennings Bryan
With my physicality and my face, I don’t think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There’s something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they’re flawed, not perfect. Emraan Hashmi
I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be. Stephen Lang
Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life. Mitt Romney
Justification is God’s declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God’s eyes. Kevin DeYoung
As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah – an act of justice, not charity – because it is the righteous thing to do. Lynn Schusterman
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
When ‘You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling’ hit, we were doing a show called ‘Shindig!’ and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business. Bill Medley
Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. Bono
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something. Chris Hayes
I used to be in music, in a punk band in my teens. It was very teenage of me, I wanted to find a way to be loud and angry and righteous and that seemed the most productive way to do so. Rege-Jean Page
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance – all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Jon Voight
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. Roger Ebert
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems. Ezra Taft Benson
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place. Yehuda Berg
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. Nikolai Gogol
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal
The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge ‘armed’ with power. Sheri L. Dew
I am righteous and not afraid to speak my truth. My delivery might not always be as diplomatic as I would like it to be, but my words are truthful – spoken from the heart and to the point. Yolanda Hadid
There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor. Al Franken
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. Tony Evans
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. Anna Quindlen
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. Horace
Interestingly, although the ‘Books of Blood’ were greeted with cries of righteous horror – and smirks – I didn’t think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn’t think they were. Clive Barker
I’d always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned. Katherine Dunn
I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I’m not trying to get out of anything. Lil’ Kim
I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, ‘Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,’ and I really didn’t want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, ‘Oh geez, it’s really anti-climatic.’ Bill Medley
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Ezra Taft Benson
There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt – to me, anyway – is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity. Tilda Swinton
There’s how, basically, Son Goku from ‘Dragon Ball’ doesn’t fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once ‘Dragon Ball’ got animated, at any rate, I’ve always been dissatisfied with the ‘righteous hero’-type portrayal they gave him. Akira Toriyama
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus. Ezra Taft Benson
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. James Bryce
A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth. Russell M. Nelson
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. David A. Bednar
Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I’d rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me. Vincent Cassel
You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode. Andrew Breitbart