Top Conscience Quotes

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its cons...

Sell your materials but save your morals.

Conscience Definition

(n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

(n.) The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

(n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

(n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our liv...

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohi...

The expression Gone To The Dogs needs to be changed to Gone To Humans Without a Conscience

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think...

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church

I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was t...

Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, due to naiveness, passivity and selfishness, they commonly change towards a more negative self, becom...

What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, then it is absolutely right to do what is right! Do what is right and be right in what you do!

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.