Conscience Quotes

A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Two things fill my mind with ever increasing wonder and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Don’t you see that that blessed conscience of yours is nothing but other people inside you?

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

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)