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Quotes About Conduct

The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee.
~ Thomas Merton
Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional.
~ Thomas Pynchon
your character isn't measured in your circumstances, but by your attitude and actions.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
We are all shaped by what we do.
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
Mathetes AD 130 Epistle to Diognetus 5 – Christians follow the customs of their native lands in regard to marriage, food, clothing, and conduct. They marry and have children, but they never have abortions. They obey all the laws of their country.
~ Ken Johnson
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
~ Calvin Coolidge
La meta de la nueva vida en Cristo es que los hijos de Dios exhiban la "melodía y armonía" de Dios en su conducta. ¿Qué melodía? La canción del Dios de justicia. ¿Qué armonía? La armonía entre la justicia de Dios y nuestra obediencia.
~ Calvin Jean
That in the end, beauty does not matter. Character is more important.
~ Candice Hern
The White House had decided that the conduct of the press, not the conduct of the President's men, was the issue.
~ Carl Bernstein
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and government have proved that no matter what your resources, you cannot reliably control the conduct of crazy people.
~ Gavin de Becker
The law in the hands of Jesus becomes alive with God's own personality. Majestic and authoritative, he is present in every commandment, so absolute in his demands, so observant of our conduct, so intent upon the outcome, that the thought of giving him less than heart and soul and mind and strength in the product of our moral life ceases to be tolerable to ourselves.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.
~ Gena Showalter
What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
~ Gene Wolfe
Treat a man like a dog, he'll act like a dog. Treat a man with respect, he'll remember that too.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.
~ Geoffrey L. Rudd
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
~ George Crane
The will of God here is not proper conduct in specific situations; it is the redemptive purpose of God for humankind. "God's will is that one should put his whole being at God's disposal. In this total 'belonging' to him he is to apply himself to what is good."57
~ George Eldon Ladd
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~ George Eliot
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
~ George F. Kennan
Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society. Humanity entitles one to certain rights and privileges, but also implies voluntary acceptance of laws and rules of conduct. It transcends mere biology. It's a choice and therefore belongs solely to the individual. In essence, if a person feels they are human, then they are.
~ Ilona Andrews
Humanity entitles one to certain rights and privileges, but also implies voluntary acceptance of laws and rules of conduct. It transcends mere biology. It's a choice and therefore belongs solely to the individual. In essence, if a person feels they are human, then they are.
~ Ilona Andrews
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~ Immanuel Kant