Quotes About Conscience

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

To me, privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and to start anew, to act according to conscience, and to be free from the oppressive scrutiny and opinions of others.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free, he is his own trap.

True happiness, oh young people, does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we only have if we are pure of heart and mind.

When a person is too proud to admit a mistake, they choose to live with the guilt in their hearts. They think that guilt is just a feeling and can not harm them. But in reality, as long as you have not humbled yourself and admitted your wrong, you will always feel trapped by what you did in the past. Its memory will haunt you every day of your life.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

I cannot control how people see or think about me, but at least I know I can control how I think or look at myself. Because, one of our most honest judges is our own Good Conscience.

Being strong does not mean you aren't afraid. It means you do the right thing despite the fear.

When you forgive people who don't deserve your forgiveness, you leave them in conflict with their conscience.

There will be a time where we must choose between what is easy and what is right.

Life has this funny and annoying way of making you feel guilty for things you failed to do.

When you are hooked between doing what you want or doing what others want you to do, just try and do the Right Thing.

For Jane Austen, morality is not only a matter of personal responsibility between an individual and his conscience or his Maker; it is more social than that, it is a matter of how the conduct impinges on the lives of other people.

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.