Quotes About Conduct

More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

God is what you do, not what you believe in.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

four rules of conduct (rahat): not to cut any hair on any part of their body (this was a repetition of the oath regarding the kes) ; not to smoke, chew tobacco, or consume alcoholic drinks; not to eat an animal which had been slaughtered by being bled to death, as was customary with the Muslims, but only jhatkd meat, where the animal had been despatched with one blow; and not to molest the person of Muslim women.

The purpose of Alchemy is to liberate the whole individual which is hidden in the darkness, threatened by the rational and correct conduct of life, consequently experiencing themselves as hindered and on the wrong path.

People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.

Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.

I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order—a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment.

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect Time.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.