Quotes About Conduct

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.

Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments.

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them.

In the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions.

Questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term. To be incapable of proof by reasoning is common to all first principles; to the first premises of our knowledge, as well as to those of our conduct.

Onde a norma de conduta não é o próprio carácter, mas as tradições e costumes alheios, falta um dos principais ingredientes da felicidade humana e, de modo completo, o principal ingrediente do progresso individual e social.

Ach, wie anständig finden wir uns doch, wenn wir keinen Anlass haben, unanständig zu sein!

betrayed by certain artificialities of conduct, thrust from a great mechanical world upon this bare plateau of existence that fronted the wilderness.

The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.

Our standing before God depends, not upon the amount of light we have received, but upon the use we make of what we have. Thus even the heathen who choose the right as far as they can distinguish it are in a more favorable condition than are those who have had great light, and profess to serve God, but who disregard the light, and by their daily life contradict their profession. The

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Christianity brought completely new rituals, beliefs and rules of conduct, such as baptism, church services, bell-ringing, burial in consecrated churchyards without grave-goods, a belief in one God (or the Trinity), very strict regulations about marriage between relatives, while exposing unwanted children, eating horseflesh and worshipping the old gods were prohibited.

Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.

Non si diventa volgari per colpa dell'alcol: si diventa volgari perché lo si è già.

The games and sports of the playground and streets was one registration carried with us as long as we live. Our conduct, strategies, and tactics, our ranking and comradeship. Our wins and losses.

Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." This in essence was to be the Burke thesis: that principle does not have to be demonstrated when the demonstration is inexpedient.