--- title: "9 Personal Conduct Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Personal Conduct quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Personal Conduct sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_429817.jpg" --- > [Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-john-barnardo/character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-personal-conduct-is-more/) [Thomas John Barnardo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-john-barnardo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_429817.jpg) > [We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/we-have-advanced-far-enough-to-say-that-democracy-is-a-way-of-life-we/) [John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/john-dewey-545_democracy_we-have-advanced-far-enough-to-say-that_1641419.png) > [Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-john-barnardo/character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-personal-conduct-is-of-more/) [Thomas John Barnardo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-john-barnardo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_2541756.jpg) > [Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-kaplan/is-there-really-any-relationship-between-artists-personal-conduct-and/) [Fred Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-kaplan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a0/fred-kaplan-18752_any_is-there-really-any-relationship-between_911818.jpg) > [“When a prince’s personal conduct is correct,” Confucius said, “his government is effective without the issuing of orders. If his personal conduct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-osnos/when-a-prince-s-personal-conduct-is-correct-confucius-said-his/) [Evan Osnos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-osnos/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/evan-osnos-19078_conduct_when-a-prince-s-personal-conduct-is-corr_2811765.jpg) > [While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-cooper/while-i-am-happy-to-make-the-occasional-foray-into-educational/) [David E. Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-cooper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/david-e-cooper-13916_being-truthful_while-i-am-happy-to-make-the-occasional_1947049.jpg) > [There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/there-can-be-no-freedom-in-the-large-sense-of-the-word-no-harmonious/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34b/emma-goldman-774_business_there-can-be-no-freedom-in-the-large-sen_1790170.png) > [You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-goodell/you-do-not-have-to-be-convicted-or-even-charged-of-a-crime-to-be-able/) [Roger Goodell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-goodell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/roger-goodell-13501_able_you-do-not-have-to-be-convicted-or-even_269214.jpg) > [“There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/there-are-many-who-consider-as-an-injury-to-themselves-any-conduct/) [John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d5/john-stuart-mill-477_drugs_there-are-many-who-consider-as-an-injury_296764.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/personal-conduct/#itemlist", "name": "Personal Conduct Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas John Barnardo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-john-barnardo/character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-personal-conduct-is-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_429817.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_429817.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/thomas-john-barnardo-60876_ancestry_character-is-better-than-ancestry-and-pe_429817.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.” — Thomas John Barnardo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. 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But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it. And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. It is easy for any one to imagine an ideal public, which leaves the freedom and choice of individuals in all uncertain matters undisturbed, and only requires them to abstain from modes of conduct which universal experience has condemned. But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience. In its interferences with personal conduct it is seldom thinking of anything but the enormity of acting or feeling differently from itself; and this standard of judgment, thinly disguised, is held up to mankind as the dictate of religion and philosophy, by nine tenths of all moralists and speculative writers. These teach that things are right because they are right; because we feel them to be so. They tell us to search in our own minds and hearts for laws of conduct binding on ourselves and on all others. 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