Brene Brown Quotes

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

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.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

I have to feel good about what I'm endorsing because I have to live with it.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

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