Bernard Baruch Quotes

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

I try to do the right thing.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.