His Conduct Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
— Charles Darwin
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not…
— George Washington
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
— Aldo Leopold
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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates…
— George F. Kennan
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
— Confucius
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish…
— Gautama Buddha
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
— Ernst Junger
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Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
— Confucius
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At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And…
— Josephus
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Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved…
— W. Phillip Keller
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just…
— Seneca the Younger
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The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love…
— Ellen G. White
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
— Khalil Gibran
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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere…
— Walter Lippmann
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
— John Stuart Mill
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