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Quotes About Conduct

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
~ Judith Martin
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
~ Judith Martin
Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.
~ Kathryn Minshew
I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
~ Serena Williams
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
~ John Wooden
There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.
~ Bikram Choudhury
Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.
~ Joanna Lumley
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of the myriad of other codes of conduct suggested by our actions. After all, we've created them. We've created the stories that allow them to exist and flourish. They didn't come out of nowhere. They didn't arrive from another planet.
~ Thomas King
Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends unseen his hand to injure it, contrives a wound it will never be in his power to heal.
~ Thomas Paine
enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too
~ Thomas Paine
Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
~ Thomas Watson
La piedad consiste en una armonía exacta entre principios y prácticas piadosas
~ Thomas Watson
All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.
~ Thorne Smith
the master of the house don't pinch decent, self-respecting girls when he meets them in a dark corridor. I mention no names and make no charges.
~ Thornton Wilder
Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.
~ Tiberius
Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
~ Richard N. Haass
At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.
~ Robert J. Bentley
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
~ Harsha Bhogle
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.
~ Diane Mott Davidson
If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.
~ Richard Attenborough