Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

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.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Our ideals are our better selves.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.