Quotes About Conduct

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

What we do flows from who we are.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

Some people are just like summer...NO CLASS!

Remember, people will always judge you by your actions and not by your intentions.

A single lifetime is enough if its lived with principles.

There is never a right way to do a wrong thing.

Your worth is calculated by the way you live life and how you respond to it.

You make an impact not by the things you do, but how you do them.

It is not what you do, it matters how you do, it does not matter what you look, it does matter how do you look, it is not what your life is, it matters how you live it

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

It's what people do is important, not what they say or feel.

For Jane Austen, morality is not only a matter of personal responsibility between an individual and his conscience or his Maker; it is more social than that, it is a matter of how the conduct impinges on the lives of other people.

A bad man is as much pleased as a good man is distressed to speak ill of others.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Conversation was strictly limited to functional needs and 'scurrilous and shameful words' and laughter were altogether prohibited, regulations especially relevant to a recurring theme in the Rule: the need to avoid displays of anger, malice, or grumbling, or reminiscences about past sexual conquests. 'Every idle word is known to generate sin.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it will become your destiny. And that's not always good:

The Lord, even at the [5] time of the Pharaohs, had this right, for in Scripture He says to this monarch: "And therefore have I raised you, that I may show MY POWER in you, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth."314 Century has followed on century since the Most High has spoken those words, and since then His conduct has undergone no [10] change, for He is always using His creatures as instruments to carry on His work in souls.

but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions and the conduct of our lives; and that regard for moral obligations, loyalty to friends, patience in finishing our work, obedience to a rule of life, have a surer foundation in habits solidly formed and blindly followed than in these momentary transports, ardent but sterile.