Thomas Brooks Quotes

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

Don't throw away your conscience.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

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

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.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

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

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.