Quotes About Conduct

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

I just get grumpy with bad behaviour.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Trust is a fragile commodity. Know your code of conduct and the values you stand for. Remember: if you wouldn't want to explain it on '60 Minutes,' don't do it.

Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. —Psalm 112:5

Keep yourself completely above reproach; avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing (see 1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV).

To speak well is part of living well.

Das Gewissen ist ein Spiegel, vor dem ein Affe sich quält; jeder putzt sich, wie er kann, und geht auf seine eigne Art auf seinen Spaß dabei aus.

When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: Make him a citizen of a state with good laws

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

You can prick your finger ... Just don't finger your prick.

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was]

You have been reproaching other people all your life - you have been always sure you yourself are right: it is because you have not a mind large enough to see that there is anything better than your own conduct and your own petty aims.

The majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own judgement

the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness of our own jokes

When events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof that his conduct has been less foolish and blameworthy than it might otherwise have appeared? When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune .

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.