Karen Salmansohn Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

My conscience is clear.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

My conscience is clean.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

A clear conscience is a sure card.