Quotes About Conduct

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

The test of any man lies in action.

By his deeds we know a man.

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

If we can't behave and speak in tune with our values, then they aren't really our values.

As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don't want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way.

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

It's not about how you feel. It's about what you do.

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.