Quotes About Conduct

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife. But her new and unexpected line of conduct completely bewildered him. It shocked him. Then her absolute disregard for her duties as a wife angered him. When Mr. Pontellier became rude, Edna grew insolent. She had resolved never to take another step backward.

How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse. #Page: 10

the applicant be possessed of a dignity in keeping with his position.

The Golden Rule is clear: do not sound like a lawyer any more than is absolutely necessary.

There is a sincere way of conducting every case. Find it.

En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.

She knew how to behave at ceremonies: move slowly, smile at everyone, do what you're told, and if no one tells you what to do, stand still.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

Science alone cannot provide the impetus for changing human conduct. It does not provide a compelling warrant for acknowledging the intrinsic value of life or its sanctity.... If, however, we take our cue from Genesis, damaging creation is tantamount to defacing God's sanctuary, an act of utter sacrilege.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

It is important both for the preparation for war and the conduct of war that they know that Fourth Generation war is, above all, light infantry warfare.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Nor is it only in prophane history that instances like these are to be found, of persons committing the greatest crimes with a sincere conviction of the rectitude of their conduct. Scripture will afford us parallels; and it was surely to guard us against the very error which we have been now exposing, that our blessed Saviour forewarned his disciples: "The time cometh, that whosoever [Pg 13] killeth you will think that he doeth God service.