Quotes About Conduct

Cuando nos amamos, Dios vive en nosotros. Cubre nuestra mente y nuestro corazón con su sombra, guía nuestro pensamiento, nuestra conducta y nuestras palabras. Aleja de nosotros los pensamientos de miedo, reemplazándolos milagrosamente por pensamientos de amor.

morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

Actions define a man,words are just a fart in the wind.

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

Literary teas are constantly in a state of flux. The uninitiate gravitates toward the author, the author toward the editor or publisher, the publisher toward the reviewer, and the reviewer, in desperation, toward another drink. Since the general rule of conduct is to seek out those who can do one the most good, magazine editors and big-name reviewers enjoy much popularity.

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk.

My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are already living near the fringes of acceptable conduct.

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

Mr. Turveydrop, the great professor of deportment, has done much

Believe me, my child, that Christian ministers are never called on by God's word to insult the convictions, or even the prejudices of their brethren, and that religion is at any rate not less susceptible of urbane and courteous conduct among men than any other study which men may take up.

He had never done any good, but he had always carried himself like a duke, and like a duke he carried himself to the end.

It is so nice to go to church," said Lizzie. Since her widowhood had commenced, she had compromised matters with the world. One Sunday she would go to church, and the next she would have a headache and a French novel and stay in bed. But she was prepared for stricter conduct during at least the first months of her newly-married life.

Doan't thou marry for munny, but goa where munny is." Mrs. Greystock would have repudiated the idea of mercenary marriages in any ordinary conversation, and would have been severe on any gentleman who was false to a young lady. But it is so hard to bring one's general principles to bear on one's own conduct or in one's own family; — and then the Greystocks were so peculiar a people!

I dare say, and as it doesn't displease me all is well. You, however, have quite sense enough to understand, that in this house more is thought of—of—of— he would have said blood, but that he did not wish to hurt her,—more is thought of personal good conduct than of rings and jewels.

A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.

he was a prizeman, and had gotten medals and scholarships, but on account of the excellence of his general conduct. He lived with the best set—he incurred no debts—he was fond of society, but able to avoid low society—liked his glass of wine, but was never known to be drunk; and, above all things, was one of the most popular men in the university.

Henrietta had been taught by the conduct of both father and mother that every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

Wir sind das, was wir wiederholt tun.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts