Quotes and Sayings about Conscience

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it's coming from someone who isn't used to lying. It's more like rotten eggs and horseshit.

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
'I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.'
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you - just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The only tyrant I accept in this world, is the still small voice within.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

We can be only who we are; no more, no less.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It's better to be hated for the person you are, than to be loved for the person you're not.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't. Everybody has their own strengths and weknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are - and aren't - that you will truly succeed.

Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

I'm starting to realize more than I ever wanted to, that doing the right thing doesn't always make you feel good.

We all want to do the right thing. But the right thing is seldom free.

We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

The three C's of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your Life will never Change.

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

The most important moments are the ones that make you realize there's no turning back. You've crossed a line, and you're stuck on the other side now.

Have you ever thought that if you can go back in time, you might still make the same decisions? We all make our own snowballs out of our bad decisions. Balls that become massive, like the Indiana Jones boulder, chasing you down-hill only to crush you in the end.

It's not how everyone else feels about what you choose, but what your heart tells you, lad. That's all that matters.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
Depends how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live 'em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give 'em.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

No higher power sits in judgement of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins. In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.