Quotes About Conduct

Do you know what you're saying when you say, Whatever? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by you. And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' Blaze leaned back. So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)

That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

We need to play between the whistles. That's what tough competitors do. They don't run their mouth.

We glorify God with all of our members, but in most cases, our mouths seem to get more opportunity. So it just goes without saying that we can dishonor Him with our mouths as well.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

I know quite well that I can appear insufferable and annoying. Worse than that, I know that I can appear insufferable and annoying without intending to do so. (An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.)

And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever.

Even the constantly reiterated insistence that we are miserable offenders, born in sin, is a kind of inverted arrogance: such vanity, to presume that our moral conduct has some sort of cosmic significance, as though the Creator of the Universe wouldn't have better things to do than tot up our black marks and our brownie points.

because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing—

We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.

obrar siempre de manera que podamos convertir la máxima de nuestra conducta en ley universal».

There are many ways of dating the moment when the Left lost or—I would prefer to say—discarded its moral advantage, but this was the first time that I was to see the sellout conducted so cheaply.

But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time.

Correspondents of the press were ever on hand to hear every word dropped, and were not always disposed to report correctly what did not confirm their preconceived notions, either about the conduct of the war or the individuals concerned in it.

so often the appearance of lunacy in sports isn't lunacy at all. As outlandish as sports conduct might seem, it is rooted in basic human psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive tendency.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

We can give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.