Quotes About Conduct

Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...there are no reason not to make them...

man's being is essentially his own deed .

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Be a man and not a beast.

The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.

the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

For the pharisee the emphasis is always on personal effort and achievement. The gospel of grace emphasizes the primacy of God's love. The pharisee savors impeccable conduct; the child delights in the relentless tenderness of God.

If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt standstill.

realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological. It was not more rhetoric that Jesus demanded but personal renewal, fidelity to the gospel, and creative conduct. Learning how to build chicken coops and haul water to town benefitted

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

there is no conduct less politic, than to enter into any confederacy with your friend's servants against their master: for by these means you afterwards become the slave of these very servants; by whom you are constantly liable to be betrayed.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family," said Adam Smith's strong common sense in reply to the sophists of his time, "can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Lo que en la conducta de cualquier familia es prudencia —afirmaba el recio sentido común de Adam Smith, replicando a los sofistas de su tiempo— difícilmente puede ser locura en el gobierno de un gran reino.»

No problem worthy of the name is an indivisible unit, and may always be broken into smaller problems. The whole science of aesthetics is included in the simple question What is beauty?, the science of ethics is merely the answer to What is right conduct?

It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often ended by giving up to them --it seemed really the way to live --the version that met their convenience.

When I'm bad I am bad !

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

What we do belongs to who we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.