Self Conscience Quotes

#1. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#3. Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

Henry James

#5. One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Ilchi Lee

#7. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#8. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Venting your primal self in an emotional moment can be more than your socially constructed self can handle after the fact," Alex says, her eyes gliding over me. "Look at you. Your hands are shaking. Your voice is weak. And your conscience is reasserting itself.

Mindy McGinnis

#10. Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience

Will Self

#11. We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

C. G. Jung

#13. Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

Ilchi Lee

#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. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment - originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.18

Jonathan Haidt

#17. Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

#18. As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

Vaclav Havel

#19. I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Mason Cooley

#21. There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

Robert Breault

#22. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.

Jennifer DeLucy

#23. How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.

Aldo Leopold

#25. We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.

Jacques Barzun

#26. Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion.

ABC

#27. If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Ilchi Lee

#28. Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.

Ilchi Lee

#29. The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

James McGreevey

#31. Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.

Jeroninio Almeida

#32. I was always too self-centered and irresponsible to have kids. I know that never stopped many others, but I am a narcissist with a conscience.

Debbie Kasper

#33. He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.

Nathanael West

#34. This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#35. A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

Richard G. Scott

#36. Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own? ... you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

Stefan Molyneux

#38. Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Joshua L. Liebman

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

Denis Waitley

#40. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#41. Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

John Dryden

#43. 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

#44. Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Tariq Ramadan

#45. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Gloria Steinem

#46. The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem

Rajasaraswathii

#47. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#48. The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

William Dean Howells

#49. If we make choices using Earth as the central standard, welfare as a common goal, and conscience as the absolute scale, even apparently complex changes may happen more quickly than we imagine.

Ilchi Lee

#50. 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

#51. If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

Richard Rohr

#52. 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

#53. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#54. We can't reimpose old myths on ourselves or believe in new ones made up out of a desire for comfort; therefore, the path of self-examination is the only one a person of conscience can reasonably follow.

Alan W. Watts

#55. Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals").

Anonymous

#56. At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

Ilchi Lee

#57. Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.

J.R. Young

#58. Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what's good for all is always its priority.

Ilchi Lee

#59. Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. 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

#61. The eye of your mind - your intelligence; the eye of your heart - your conscience; and the eye of your soul - your instinct.

Melissa McPhail

#62. Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Irving Layton

#63. Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

Elizabeth Bowen

#64. Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Ben Jonson

#65. If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

Ilchi Lee

#66. I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#67. But certainly, their lives are such as very often produce either inordinate self-sufficiency, or a morbid state of conscience.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#68. Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

Ilchi Lee

#69. An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Evinda Lepins

#70. Systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It's almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning

Stephen R. Covey

#71. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

Hanif Kureishi

#72. Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Charles Simmons

#73. A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

Russell M. Nelson

#74. 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

#75. Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.

Rajasaraswathii

#76. I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Mary Griffith

#77. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom ... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

#78. If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Ilchi Lee

#79. You can't reach a higher conscience of self without facing the other you.

Robin Sacredfire

#80. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

James Russell Lowell

#81. The mind of a soul is beyond another's imagination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#82. Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche