Top 70 Conscience Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.”

— Orrin Woodward

52. “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

53. “Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”

— Ben Carson

54. “Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

55. “Stand for right, even if you stand alone.”

— Thomas S. Monson

56. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

— Harper Lee

57. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

— John the Apostle

58. “Conscience is a man’s compass.”

— Vincent van Gogh

59. “The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

60. “Your life matters. You can’t live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what’s most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.”

— Jane Goodall

61. “Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”

— Robin S. Sharma

62. “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

— George Washington

63. “Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

64. “Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

— Yehuda Bauer

65. “Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”

— Swami Vivekananda

66. “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

67. “You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

68. “Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

69. “Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

70. “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

— Anne Frank

71. “Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.”

— Ken Wilber