William Stafford Quotes

A clear conscience is a sure card.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

I have a very clear conscience.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

My conscience is clean.

Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.