Quotes About Conduct

in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. —Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children

Etienne's son Paul, a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which wiped out the family, was particularly a source of speculation; and though Providence never shared the witchcraft panics of her Puritan neighbours, it was freely intimated by old wives that his prayers were neither uttered at the proper time nor directed toward the proper object.

You philosophers are sages in your maxims, and fools in your conduct.

In brief, imitation belongs first among the basic structures that rule human conduct, so that even seeming desertions must be understood as mere perversions. Second, imitation can be actualized explicitly through love: "They loved by believing; they imitated by loving."36

Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses!

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts

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

Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment. I have rights, and it is my responsibility to assert these rights. The decisions I make and the way I conduct myself will reflect my high self-esteem. My decisions will take into account my responsibilities to myself.

Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one's hands free of another man's throat, free of one's own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care.

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