Quotes About Conduct

whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way.—What art thou doing, man?

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts beIn everything always observe what the thing is which produces for thee an appearance

Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens- that is enough. Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power. Among

concerned with the act more than with the intent.

While you live—while you can—be a good man.

11. Cuando por la concurrencia de las circunstancias te vieres como desconcertado, vuelve en seguida sobre ti y no te propases fuera de lo justo más tiempo del necesario. Serás tanto más dueño de la armonía de tus actos cuanto más a menudo la recuperes.

HE WHO ACTS UNJUSTLY ACTS IMPIOUSLY.

si con la rectitud debida obran de esa forma, no es razón que nos indignemos contra ellos; si no obran rectamente, es evidente que lo hacen sin libertad y por su ignorancia. Pues toda alma sólo de mal grado se priva tanto de la verdad como del conocimiento con que debe conducirse con cada uno según su valor. Por eso, llevan con impaciencia el oírse llamar injustos, ingratos, avaros, y, en una palabra, propensos a faltar contra su prójimo.

It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character.

33. How the mind conducts itself. It all depends on that. All the rest is within its power, or beyond its control—corpses and smoke.

Affect not to set out your thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker; be one who for his word or actions needs neither an oath, nor any man to be a witness.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

His conduct has of late, been what the world calls irreproachable; but then I know his heart is still unchanged; and I know that spring is approaching, and deeply dread the consequences.

certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

Never, in any circumstance, should you raise your voice, or try to assert your opinions in the hearing of gentlemen, and do not attempt to appear clever or strong-minded; it is dangerous, and makes them extremely uncomfortable.

It isn't what you feel, it's what you do that counts.

everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.