Quotes About Conduct

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.