Quotes About Conscience

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.