Own Conduct Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. — William James
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not… — Mary Astell
If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how… — Confucius
Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that. — Helen Valentine
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the… — Samuel Johnson
There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men… — Theodore Roosevelt
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called… — George Eliot
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. — Josh Billings
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. — Arthur Helps
Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works,… — Polycarp
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
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
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
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct. — Edwin Louis Cole
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amusedâ€¦nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and… — Jane Austen
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
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. — Phaedrus
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus… — George Herbert Mead

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