Quotes About Conduct

Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.

Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.

Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled.

You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives...that's real. The rest is a story for publication.

best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

The fact that Plato and Aristotle never mentioned them in their frequent and elaborate discussions of the nature of the soul and the springs of conduct is due not to any perverse neglect by them of notorious ingredients of daily life but to the historical circumstance that they were not acquainted with a special hypothesis the acceptance of which rests not on the discovery, but on the postulation, of these ghostly thrusts.

Un duro non sarà mai un dritto. Il duro, quando se la vede brutta, spara. Il dritto non si mette mai nella condizione di dover sparare.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.

Everybody has laws he lives by, I expect. I have mine as well." "What laws?" Bond Rogers was dismayed. Yet she waited, evidently as curious as her son. "I will not be laid a hand on. I will not be wronged. I will not stand for an insult. I don't do these things to others. I require the same from them.

Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group. Governments have long convinced populations to turn a blind eye to oppressive conduct by leading citizens to believe, rightly or wrongly, that only certain marginalized people are targeted, and everyone else can acquiesce to or even support that oppression without fear that it will be applied to them.

Always look at what people do, not who they are.

Think as if you were punished for every deliberate wrong thought. You are.

PENSAR ES FÁCIL. ACTUAR ES DIFÍCIL. ACTUAR COMO SE PIENSA ES LO MÁS DIFÍCIL DE TODO.

Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Hayat?nda ahlâk timsali olarak hareket etmiyorsan ahlâk kurallar? boÅŸunad?r. Bizler öÄŸretilerini hayatlar?nda uygulamama cüretini gösteren öÄŸretmenlerden miyiz yoksa?

Bodissey: The evil man is a source of fascination; ordinary persons wonder what impels such extremes of conduct. A lust for wealth? A common motive, undoubtedly. A craving for power? Revenge against society? Let us grant these as well. But when wealth has been gained, power achieved and society brought down to a state of groveling submission, what then? Why does he continue? The response must be: the love of evil for its own sake.

Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigour and style. The body is a sensitive and plastic tool, which responds quite simply to the thoughts through which it's miles impressed, and conduct of idea will produce their personal consequences, true or terrible, upon it.

In Africa, he said, there was none whatever. Africans do not, in fact, believe that Christianity is any longer real for Europeans, due to the immense scaffolding with which they have covered it, and the fact that this religion has no effect whatever on their conduct.

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell.