Conscience Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Conscience Instances Ethics Fear Fear Law Inspirational Instance Instances Wholesome Law Wholesome Fear
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear? — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I… — Artur Phleps Copy Share Image
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
