Quotes About Conduct

Character is higher than intellect

In place of top-down government, Burke made the case for a society shaped from below, by traditions that have grown from our natural need to associate. The important social traditions are not just arbitrary customs, which might or might not have survived into the modern world. They are forms of knowledge. They contain the residues of many trials and errors, as people attempt to adjust their conduct to the conduct of others. To

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

such conduct in a man high in office argues greater attachment to his own power than to the public good and furnishes strong reason to suspect a dangerous predetermination to oppose whatever may tend to diminish the former, however it may promote the latter.

Every president "ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office.

Se John Kirwan Venton tinha esperanças de pôr as mãos na herança de Ann, foi frustrado pela prudência do sogro, que deixou dois sétimos de seu patrimônio para Ann, mas especificou que Venton estaria excluído do dinheiro, referindo-se a ele como pessoa "lamentável em sua conduta".

it used its prestige to stretch the limits of acceptable behavior

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. And if thou understandest that old age is fed with wisdom, so conduct thyself in the days of thy youth that sustenance may not be lacking to thy old age.

Miss McCleethy stands to address us. Thank you, Miss Bradshaw. That was a nice start to our day. A nice start? It was lovely. Perfect, in fact. Miss McCleethy has no passion at all, I decide. I shall be forced to give her two bad conduct marks in my invisible ledger.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.