Quotes About Conduct

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.

What you are will show in what you do.

As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.

No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.

Barr has thrown himself in with Trump in ways unbecoming to the nation's highest legal official. His conduct in trying to clear Trump is of a piece with his baseless attacks on 'spying' by the FBI and his defiance of Congress's subpoenas.

At the end of the day, we're professional prizefighters - stop acting like street thugs. We're not going to fight in the streets.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of human conduct.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.