Quotes About Conduct

Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person

A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.

The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.

we cannot be prudent without being good.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.

nadie es responsable de sus sentimientos y que su conducta y la enfermedad contraída bajo el peso de tales circunstancias constituían un alto testimonio de su moralidad.

There should not be the slightest discrepancy between one's beliefs and one's way of life.

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

There is more sense in your language, Bucklaw, replied the Master, than might have been expected from your conduct - it is too true, our vices steal upon us in forms outwardly fair as those of the demons whom the superstitious represent as intriguing with the human race, and are not discovered in their native hideousness until we have clasped them in our arms.

Once you've started cheating, does it matter what your methods are?

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

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

LIFE IS GOVERNED BY CERTAIN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE!

In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but doWhat then thou would'st.

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

The irony lost on all, though, is that the Syrian regime is quietly keeping alive the traditions that Moubayed lamented had vanished, if not through his preferred method of legalization, then at least by refraining from interfering in the private daily conduct and morality of its citizens. Moubayed told me that the regime, despite the furor caused by his article, had not reacted to it at all, either positively or negatively.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.