Conduct Quotes

930 Conduct quotes by 647 unique authors

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of. — Kenneth Lay
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow… — Laozi
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that… — George Washington
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are… — Bertrand Russell
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?… — Alexander Hamilton
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature… — George Washington
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… — George Washington
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. — Alexander Hamilton
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,… — George Washington
If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her… — David Bosch
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in… — Desiderius Erasmus
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective… — Alexander Hamilton
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill… — Diogenes
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State,… — Winston Churchill
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only… — Walter Lippmann
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct… — Samuel Johnson
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach… — Malcolm X
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein
Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to… — Albert Einstein
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of… — Albert Einstein
The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,… — Unknown Author

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