Quotes About Conduct

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there's actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that's their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for some time, "but you see it's traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

Mr. Ramsay was the head clerk; and as far as I am concerned I am for him. He never pinched the girls' arms when he passed them in dark corners of the store; and when he told them stories when business was dull and the girls giggled and said: "Oh, pshaw!" it wasn't G. Bernard they meant at all.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Taking our inspiration from an article on the proper way to walk in a city that appeared recently in the celebrated Parisian magazine Matin, we too should make our feelings clear to people who have yet to learn how to conduct themselves on the streets of Istanbul and tell them, "Don't walk down the street with your mouth open" [1924]. It

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

Purity is power because it means integrity of thought, integrity of conduct. It means wholeness.

No human being can possibly injure another without injuring himself more. He cannot do wrong without paying for it in corresponding suffering.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?