Quotes About Conscientiousness

I do not like to avoid responsibilities and feel that I am responsible.

Sometimes it's good to act responsibly.

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.

I take my work seriously.

And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he'd finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you'd call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Há muitos anos que me ocupo dessa tradução: a esfera privada na qual, todavia, ainda não me instalei confortavelmente, e onde tudo deve caminhar com conscienciosidade e responsabilidade, é a língua alemã.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Creo que la negativa al servicio militar por razones de conciencia, en caso que fiera hecha por cincuenta mil soldados, sería un poder irresistible. El individuo solo no puede obtener mucho. Aunque tampoco puede ser deseable que justamente los seres de más valor sean objeto de la destrucción por parte de esa maquinaria detrás de la cual se esconden tres grandes poderes: Imbecilidad, Temor y Codicia.

To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading...To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.

Liberalism is correlated with high openness and low conscientiousness, and when you think of Lib Dems they're absent-minded professors and hippies. They're the early adopters... they're highly open to new ideas.

Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.

In writing a few words of Preface I wish to express, first and foremost, my appreciation of the extreme care and conscientiousness with which La Mara has prepared these volumes.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

Terminal conscientiousness," he replied, his brow furrowed. "Scrupulousness of the kind that creates conditions making poverty and illness inevitable, then congratulates itself over feeding the poor and caring for the sick.

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.