Definition of Conscientious

Conscientious

Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.

Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.

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Conscientious Quotations

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Martin Sheen

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Harold Pinter

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
James Cash Penney

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
Ryan Phillippe

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Laurence Housman

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.
Richie Sambora

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Gene Tunney

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
Anna Katharine Green

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Conscientious Translations

conscientious in French is scrupuleux
conscientious in German is gewissenhaft
conscientious in Hungarian is lelkiismeretes
conscientious in Italian is coscenzioso
conscientious in Portuguese is consciencioso
conscientious in Spanish is concienzudo, esmerado
conscientious in Swedish is samvetsgrann

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