Sayings About A Clear Conscience

#1. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.

Czeslaw Milosz

#2. If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

Thomas Wolsey

#4. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

William The Silent

#5. Inner peace comes from a clear conscience.

Eraldo Banovac

#6. Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.

Eraldo Banovac

#7. We are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. Hebrews 13:18

Beth Moore

#8. All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Hosea Ballou

#9. The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Grover Cleveland

#11. There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion ...

Djemal Pasha

#12. I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

Socrates

#13. The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Alexander Cockburn

#15. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.

Sherry L. Hoppe

#16. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

#17. I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#18. Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#19. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.

Nick Hornby

#20. Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

Donald Watson

#21. The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Edward Gibbon

#22. Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

Brian Houston

#24. No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#25. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.

Ashwin Sanghi

#26. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

#27. A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#28. A clear conscience is a sure card.

John Lyly

#29. Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Zia Haider Rahman

#30. A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

John Quincy Adams

#31. Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Denis Waitley

#32. A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

Cesare Pavese

#33. A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

#34. That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.

Walter Moers

#35. A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Joan D. Vinge

#36. A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

Eddie Cantor

#37. One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

#38. To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Thomas Carlyle

#39. There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ogden Nash

#40. One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

George Sand

#41. Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.

Gichin Funakoshi

#42. Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Charles Kingsley

#43. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT

Darynda Jones

#44. Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Horace

#45. I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Fatty Arbuckle

#46. I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.

Beth Ditto

#47. But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.
She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.

Sonja Yoerg

#48. If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep," he said, "it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience." "I'm going with Nurse Burrows." "You can still hold hands." "I've no patience with you," she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom.

Josephine Tey

#49. If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

#50. Some people are so stupid that they actually think there are thick neon lines separating good and evil. That it's easy to make that kind of distinction and go to sleep at night with a clear conscience.

Tahereh Mafi

#51. A clear conscience has to be earned and if often necessary to have a peaceful sleep at night. Honesty, more often than not, has to become the way of life if one has to prosper and to grow and sustain that growth.

Preeti Bhonsle

#52. Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Jay Paterno

#53. He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#54. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#55. I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate it to this day.

Chris Kyle

#56. I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

Alistair Overeem

#57. Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#58. The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

David O. McKay

#59. There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

John Wooden

#60. I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you

Ernest Hemingway,

#61. I have a clear conscience.

Wilhelm Canaris

#62. Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

Sinead O'Conner

#63. Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periander

#64. Leaders with principles are less likely to get bullied or pushed around because they can draw clear lines in the sand ... The softest pillow is a clear conscience. - Narayana Murthy, founder and CEO, Infosys

Bill George

#65. As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

Wilhelm Frick

#66. Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

John F. Kennedy

#67. Big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

Orhan Pamuk

#68. How good one feels when one is full
how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jerome K. Jerome

#69. A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.

Winkie Pratney

#70. I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Hector Hugh Munro

#71. This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.

Boris Pasternak

#72. A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard

#73. A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#74. Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

Sivananda

#75. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

#76. Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

Jeff Shaara

#77. I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Sharon Kay Penman

#78. I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Pol Pot

#79. Even beautiful things such as forgiveness, clear conscience, joy in life, and adoption into the family of God are all benefits of being a Christian, but not the ultimate goal.

Jefferson Bethke

#80. A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing

Elizabeth I

#81. 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

#82. A nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear

Joseph Heller

#83. Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Martin Parr

#84. What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.

King Hussein I

#85. Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#86. A good conscience will prevail a bad decision.

Anthony Liccione

#87. I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

Lizbeth Gabriel

#88. Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Criss Jami

#89. Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.

Ilchi Lee

#90. I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Bernard Cornwell

#91. Cold-blooded? Me? Hardly. I'm the ultimate purveyor of justice, an executioner with a flawless track record and crystal clear conscience.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#92. As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.

Rick Warren

#93. In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#94. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#95. A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

Thomas Huxley

#96. Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Ovid

#97. Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

R. Newman

#98. The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

Seneca The Younger

#99. As with all young ones, a deeper perception comes clearer with time... Roe'vaash recieved the grace to release the anger and pain he had carried and suffered for so long...

K. Farrell St. Germain

#100. What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.

Emil Cioran