Quotes About Conduct

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.

Do you compare your conduct with his? No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours.

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do

had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!

Finchè l'immaginazione altrui galopperà per formarsi opinioni errate sulla nostra condotta e giudicarla da superficiali apparenze, la nostra felicità sarà sempre, si può dire, nelle mani del caso.

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.