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Quotes About Conduct

In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.
~ Robert B. Parker
How about, you never act like a jerk when you're working," Jenn said. Jesse nodded. "It's why I work," he said.
~ Robert B. Parker
We don't ask other teachers about their sexual habits.
~ Robert B. Parker
person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself
~ Robert Greene
It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
~ Robert Greene
A community is an informally constituted group, larger than the family, within which there is a distinctive pattern of interaction, whose members share a feeling of common identity which may be no more than a simple recognition of friendship, and which possesses its own sub-culture, defining how the members of the community should conduct themselves and behave towards one another during their free time.
~ Kenneth Roberts
of wrongdoing and rightdoing
~ Khaled Hosseini
There is only what you do and what you don't do
~ Khaled Hosseini
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...
~ Khushwant Singh
Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.
~ Kim Harrison
What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.
~ Klaus Issler
Handsome is as handsome does
~ L. Frank Baum
We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
~ Al-Ghazali
Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
~ George Washington
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
~ John B. S. Haldane
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
~ Blaise Pascal
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
~ Josh Billings
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
~ Navonne Johns
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
~ Dalai Lama