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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others:
or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience.
It supersedes all other courts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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