Henry Fielding Quotes

Go by your own conscience.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

Let your conscience be your guide.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.