Quotes About Conduct

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

In action is the worst action of human beings!

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?

It has been the one song of those who thirst after absolute power that the interest of the state requires that its affairs should be conducted in secret . . . .

But how far has human nature changed in the course of history? Theoretically there must have been some change; natural selection has presumably operated upon psychological as well as upon physiological variations. Nevertheless, known history shows little alteration in the conduct of mankind.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things

I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.