Conduct Quotes

930 Conduct quotes by 647 unique authors

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time. — Lee R. Raymond
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them… — Louis D. Brandeis
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives,… — Jacob G. Hornberger
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of… — Stanislav Grof
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience,… — David Shi
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct… — Ambrose Bierce
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make… — Alexander Hamilton
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention… — Samuel Johnson
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve,… — Juvenal
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such… — John Quincy Adams
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome… — Samuel Smiles
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a… — William Howard Taft
You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your… — Chogyam Trungpa
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the… — Margaret Culkin Banning
If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God. — Sathya Sai Baba
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy... — Sathya Sai Baba
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be… — Jane Porter

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