Quotes About Conduct

I made my people understand the crucial difference between modesty and self-control. The modest person, I told them, will do nothing blameworthy in the light of day, but a true paragon of self-control—which we all should strive to be—avoids unworthy actions even in the deepest secrecy of his private life.

Given sufficient training, any intelligent person can learn to conduct surveys, but getting people to use the results requires salesmanship of a high order.

Grant, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that by the observance of this Lent I may advance in the knowledge of the mystery of Christ, and show forth His mind in conduct worthy of my calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —GELASIAN SACRAMENTARY

Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!

How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about –

A man got to have a code. --The Wire

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

How much you know it's depending upon your action not in your lip service.

You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can't carry yourself the right way.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Develop a conscience to live by.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

It is better to act right than seek right.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

You don't have to dream when you habitually think good and do good.

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.

As for chaos," Mamoud said, "chaos is not what is happening around you, but how you conduct yourself around … chaos." The earth erupted in explosion and flames not forty feet from the turret. Mamoud didn't flinch, but Jonathan definitely did. Even Lady Insult put her spyglass down. The tower shuddered from the footfall of the elephants. There was a sour smell like sulfur.