Quotes About Conduct

The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one's own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.

This is the lie that is at the heart of our society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive self-indulgence to flourish: for while we ascribe our conduct to pressures from without, we obey the whims that well up from within, thereby awarding ourselves carte blanche to behave as we choose. Thus we feel good about behaving badly.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.

There must be absolute religious liberty, for tyranny and intolerance are as abhorrent in matters intellectual and spiritual as in matters political and material; and more and more we must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma.

If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Cuanto más y mejor entiendes, tanto más gravemente serás juzgado si no vivieres santamente.

a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If you're an L.C.N. guy, you don't have facial hair and you don't have long hair. You have to be neat all the time. It's the rule.

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

I never complain when I foul, ever.

I am a normal guy. I muck about; I play around with my nieces. The only thing is I need to be professional when I am out and conduct myself in a certain way. I still live a normal lifestyle.

las acciones —no los pensamientos ni las intenciones— eran la verdadera forma de juzgar a los demás

People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

All prophecy is based on God's Foreknowledge, but it does not predetermine human conduct or events.

To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.

Ethics are more important than laws. —Wynton Marsalis, artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Pero es cierto que, al aplicar la logoterapia, el paciente ha de enfrentarse con el sentido de su vida y confrontar luego su conducta con ese sentido. Por consiguiente, se trata de una definición válida de la logoterapia, en cuanto el neurótico pretende eludir su responsabilidad vital; y despertar su conciencia al sentido de la vida es el fundamento para sobreponerse a la neurosis.