Quotes About Conduct

Righteousness" for Luke does not mean having the correct theology. Righteousness means behaving in a way marked by justice.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my options.

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

He preaches well that lives well.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.