Quotes About Conduct

But if you believe that Jesus was wholly God, then to condemn His conduct is presumptuous. If you believe that He was not wholly God, but only partly or in some respects divine, you are a heretic. If you think He was not God at all, you are an infidel.

In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.

By the deeds know a man.

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man--given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.

It is not enough to feel reverence; one must act reverently.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

I think with election conducted with pick and choose policy, injustice has been done to Punjab and Punjabiyat.

If I was a pig to work with I would never get asked back.

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Nicholson never brooked the faintest show of insolence towards an officer of the ruling race.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

States!... Go put your creed into your deed.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

There has of course always been a noisy pacifist or nationalist element in Britain who are ready to traduce the conduct of their fellow countrymen who are helping to fight their country's battles. Naturally, being silly billies they know nothing of the traditions of the British Army nor in their passionate hatred of their own country do they mind what lies they tell.

Em breve, o sociólogo e o historiador, eles também filhos da Formalidade, esquecerão o riso ácido, a zombaria sutil, o humor que sente os pólos em confronto. Então o mundo volverá à solenidade, à gravidade, irremediavelmente mergulhado no lado do qual extrairá as regras, as normas e as leis de conduta