Conduct Quotes

930 Conduct quotes by 647 unique authors

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to… — Carl von Clausewitz
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… — Jane Austen
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do… — Parker J. Palmer
The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the… — Lord Byron
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has… — Carl von Clausewitz
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. — Confucius
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to… — W. Cleon Skousen
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's… — Anne Rice
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity? — Bruce Sterling
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility.… — Jasper Fforde
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example;… — Benjamin Franklin
You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely… — John Green
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. — John Locke
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do,… — Nicole Krauss
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not. — Milan Kundera
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… — John Adams
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful… — Thomas Aquinas
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. — Charlotte Bronte
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted… — Pablo Neruda

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