Quotes About Conduct

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

As even newly elected presidents have learned, trying to correct the conduct of business as usual in the federal bureaucracy is like trying to nudge an ocean liner off its path by standing on a rubber raft and pressing on the liner's hull with your bare hands as it speeds by.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

St. Paul was not personally responsible for the Inquisition and for the Roman Church at the end of the fifteenth century, but the inquirer, whether Christian or not, cannot be content to observe that Christianity was depraved or distorted by the conduct of unworthy popes and bishops; he must rather seek to discover what it was in the Pauline epistles that gave rise, in the fullness of time, to unworthy and criminal actions.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

law lives in conduct, not on the printed page; it exists in the interactions of judges, lawyers, and ordinary citizens.

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.

How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.

He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason.

Every man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature. In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuse behind us, nor justification before us. We are alone, with no excuses.

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.