Robert Burns Quotes

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

I don't want to regret doing something that I don't believe in.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.