Quotes About Conduct

He preaches well that lives well.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually just the pretexts for it.

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

La vida dicta a los hombres leyes que no están escritas

The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct.

If you leave the schoolhouse when midday is called and go roaming in the streets, all will scold you in the end. When an official sends you with a message, Tell it as he told it, Don't omit, don't add to it. He who neglects to praise, his name will not endure ; he who is skilled in all his conduct, from him nothing is hidden, he is not 'opposed anywhere.

Do not tell lies against your mother, the magistrates abhor it. The descendant who does what is good. His actions all emulate the past. Do not consort with a rowdy. It harms you when one hears of it. If you have eaten three loaves, drunk two jugs of beer, and the belly is not sated, restrain it! When another eats, don't stand there, beware of rushing to the table!

None light of heart is weighty in conduct.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Why, it's a commandment handed down by our ancestors. That was the way they behaved--" "And I suppose their conduct was invariably impeccable, huh?" Chris mocked. "One of the reasons I've always had respect for polygamy is that our ancestors handed it down to us.

El valor moral de un acto depende de la intención con que se realiza".

My belief is that the scientific approach is the best to follow, but it will be the greatest path only when it's conducted with the greatest minds within the state.

The majority of people imagine themselves to be so religious, while breaking the laws, instead of the rules alone.

Virtue, after all, isn't just about morals in the sense of "knowing the standards to live up to" or "knowing which rules you're supposed to keep." Virtue, as we have already seen, is about the whole of life, not just the specifically "moral" choices.

My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

The test of character was in what you did, not what you thought about doing.

We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality and conduct--regardless of whether or not their conduct has any affect on our personal rights to life, liberty, and property.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

Scripture has at its core such a powerful mythology that even the residue of that mythology is still sufficient to serve as an exacting control mechanism for some people. It provides, first of all, a theory about the meaning of life and therefore rules on how one is to conduct oneself.

W]hen men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.15