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Quotes About Conscience

And just as some people have obvious moral deficits, others must possess moral talent, moral expertise, and even moral genius. As with any human ability, these gradations must be expressed at the level of the brain. Game
~ Sam Harris
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
~ Woody Allen
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
~ C. S. Lewis
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
~ Anne Frank
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
~ Thomas Lickona
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~ Thomas Paine
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
~ Hosea Ballou
If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.
~ Jason Evert
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
~ Harry S. Truman
The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.
~ George W. Bush
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.
~ K. Weikel, Untouched Water
Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong
~ Larry Winget
My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.
~ Tim Gunn
Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.
~ John Gray
Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
~ Euripides
Success is doing the right thing for who you are.
~ Katherine Center
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The gloomy light, the silence and the awful poetry of night had no doubt combined with the fearful poetry of her conscience: the poisoner was afraid to see her work.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Non sapete - disse Porthos - che torcere il collo a quella dannata Milady sarebbe un peccato meno grave che torcerlo a quei poveri diavoli di ugonotti, che non hanno commesso altro delitto che quello di cantare in francese salmi che noi cantiamo in latino?».
~ Alexandre Dumas