C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.”
Source: My Losing Season: A Memoir
“Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.”
“Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
“Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.”
“Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.”
“Conscience brings joy,
untainted by shallow glee.
Surrounded by ritual compromise,
conscience alone can set us free.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.’ - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca”
“Conscience can be silenced through an incessant disobedience”
“Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.”
Source: First Things First
“Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
“Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.”
“Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?”
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
“Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.”
“Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.”
Source: Bury Your Dead
“Conscience in humans is God given knowledge to know right and wrong”
“Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.”
“Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.”
“Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.”
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
“Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.”
“Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.”
“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.”
“Conscience is a feeling that does not exist in everyone's heart.”
“Conscience is a God to all mortals.”
“Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.”
“Conscience is a Jewish invention.”
“Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.”
“Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“Conscience is a man's compass.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
“Conscience is a powerful source to guide towards the straight path. Having knowledge of the right path, what will encourage righteous actions? What makes conscience functioning? Religion is not just a source of information to know right and wrong. Religion gives a worldview that explains the purpose of life. The objective of religious guidance is submission to Allah alone and ethical purification of one’s actions. This belief should be reflected in one’s duties to the Creator and the environment which includes other humans and animals of present and future generations. Belief in divine appraisal can limit mischief of those in authority, can motivate selfless behaviour and is a source of contentment for those with unfair lives and deaths since every small act of goodness and evil would be subject to deterministic rewards in the life hereafter.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Conscience is a thousand swords.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Conscience is a thousand witnesses.”
“Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.”
“Conscience is better served by a myth.”
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”
“Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.”
“Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”
“Conscience is God present in man.”
“Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.”
“Conscience is God's presence in humans.”
“Conscience is harder than our enemies,
Knows more, accuses with more nicety.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“Conscience is its own readiest accuser.”
“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.”
“Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.”