Isabelle Holland Quotes

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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

Protect me from what I want.

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.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.