Ernest Gaines Quotes

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

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

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

I do what I think is right.

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

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

My conscience is clear.

You just have to do what you know is right.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

The issue is not whether or not we can stand with the President. It is whether, at the end of the day, we can stand with ourselves.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

You must always do what you feel is right.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?