Quotes About Conduct

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

Un gentleman, c'est quelqu'un qui sait jouer de la cornemuse et qui n'en joue pas.

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Pues bien, del mismo modo el malo, si ha de ser un hombre auténticamente malo, debe reali­zar con destreza sus malas acciones y pasar inadvertido con ellas. Y al que se deje sorprender en ellas hay que considerarlo inhábil, pues no hay mayor perfección en el mal que el parecer ser bueno no siéndolo.

Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.

parecerá su conducta poco conforme con estos principios, si no te fijas en que los hombres están poseídos del deseo de crearse un nombre y de adquirir una gloria inmortal en la posteridad; y que este deseo, más que el amor paterno, es el que les hace despreciar todos los peligros, comprometer su fortuna, resistir todas las fatigas y sacrificar su misma vida. ¿Piensas

The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong , whether it is what a good man does or a bad man.

Matilah dengan iradat, tetapi hiduplah dengan tabiat.

Practice yourself what you preach.

But it is my believed that one gets back what he puts out. The only way to truly earn regard is to conduct oneself with the utmost honor and respect.

I don't believe in working in any location, in any environment, for any people with a lack of integrity.

His conduct reveals that he has more confidence in what he can do for himself than in what God can do for him. He has, in fact, "snubbed" God. It is this attitude that calls forth God's curse.

a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Well, from what I have heard of the Scotch Highlanders, there is little to choose between them and the red men for barbarous conduct. Nonsense, said Jamie, sounding not the least offended. The red savages eat the hearts of their enemies, or so I have heard. I prefer a good dish of oatmeal parritch, myself. Bonnet made a noise, hastily stifled. You are a Highlander? Well, I will say that for a barbarian, I have found ye passing civil, sir.

that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

In all of my assignments, I have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with U.S. law.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I'm well aware of the rules, and I don't want to play to the edge of them.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.