Conscience Quotes

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expedience asks the question, “Is it political?” Vanity asks, “Is it popular?” But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” There comes a time when one must take a position that’s neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must make it because his conscience tells him that […]

One lives with so many bad deeds on one’s conscience and some good intentions in one’s heart.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, – conscience. (Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy)

A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.

Conscience: The still small voice that makes you feel still smaller.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case they are answerable.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.