Own Conscience Quotes

63 quotes by 54 authors

Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,… — Thomas Merton
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. — Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by… — Samuel West
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain
And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not… — Edgar Cayce
Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're… — Nicole Kidman
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We… — Antonin Scalia
The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but… — Anuj
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone… — Susanna Tamaro
If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have… — Napoleon Hill
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. — Arthur Koestler
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Go by your own conscience. — Steve Chabot
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. — Charles Edison
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the… — Aleksander Kwasniewski
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of… — Raymond B. Fosdick
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. — Albert Schweitzer
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science… — Max Planck
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to… — Elena Kagan

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