Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other reward
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.