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Quotes About Conduct

People without religion are capable of anything.
~ Honore de Balzac
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
~ Horace Mann
A man may be free from all scandal in either creed or conduct but may be a most grievous obstruction in the way of all spiritual good to his people. He may be a dry and empty cistern in spite of his orthodoxy. He may be freezing or blasting life at the very time he is speaking of the way of life. He may be repelling men from the cross even when he is proclaiming it in words. He may be standing between his flock and the blessing even when he is outwardly lifting up his hand to bless them.
~ Horatius Bonar
Mill's Methods, as they are called, have indeed proven useful in the conduct of science. Journals such as Nature and Science, and popular magazines like New Scientist and Scientific American regularly report studies based on versions of these methods
~ Unknown
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
~ Howard Staunton
If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners.
~ Unknown
Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta La lengua Un hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.
~ Idries Shah
Cualquier sociedad que ordene a sus miembros adherirse a ambas cosas (cortesía y verdad) es fraudulenta.
~ Idries Shah
Hank's self-defeating conduct stemmed in part from his perception that he was being marketed as a commodity.
~ Unknown
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
~ Confucius
Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines
~ Craig Johnson
There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.
~ Croft M. Pentz
A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.
~ Stephen Curry
Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.
~ Richard Coles
We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.
~ David Souter
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
~ Will Self
One guy that really inspired me was Michael Jordan. I wouldn't say that he inspired me as a sportsman, but I love going back and watching videos of him, especially how he conducts himself in interviews. He always seemed to be very careful about the words that he used and thought about everything differently to anybody else.
~ Matteo Manassero
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
~ Fidel Castro
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave just as outrageously as the world allows.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith