Quotes About Conduct

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Every man's actions belong to him.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

A battle for power is a battle for survival, and in such a battle there are no rules of conduct. Power will use whatever means are available to it with which to challenge the warrior.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Not disparaging, not injuring, restraint in line with the Patimokkha, moderation in food, dwelling in seclusion, commitment to the heightened mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Dhp 183, 185

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.