Conscientious Quotes
95 quotes by 88 authors
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
— Gene Tunney
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Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it…
— George Washington
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There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they…
— Anna Katharine Green
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Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness…
— Albert Einstein
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Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
— Peter Drucker
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Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have…
— Donald Saunders
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Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on…
— Michael Sandel
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
— Harold Pinter
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Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got…
— Angie Harmon
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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that…
— Hermann Hesse
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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for…
— Albert Einstein
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A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all…
— Anne Taintor
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The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative,…
— Russell Kirk
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .…
— Confucius
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,…
— Emile Zola
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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…
— Ryan Phillippe
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It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Conscientious Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 95 Conscientious Quotes, led by these top contributors: