Conduct Quotes

930 Conduct quotes by 647 unique authors

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships… — Kate Morton
And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so… — Laini Taylor
Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects… — Jim Butcher
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to… — Alexander Hamilton
Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one… — Emma Forrest
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… — Oscar Wilde
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who… — Sheryl Sandberg
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is… — Ambrose Bierce
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life.… — Laurence J. Peter
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true… — Abraham Lincoln
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct. — Herbert Spencer
Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think… — Annie Besant
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. — John F. Kennedy
It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself… — Paul Wolfowitz
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything… — Thomas Paine
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. — Mahatma Gandhi
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so… — Leonardo da Vinci
So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking… — Jerry Bridges
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. — Saint Augustine
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be… — Martin Heidegger
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama
Our characters are the result of our conduct. — Aristotle

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