Quotes about Conduct
Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.
- John Wooden
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
- Cicero
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
- Samuel Johnson
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
- Erwin McManus
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.
- Martin Luther
Therefore, beware of such misleading, shameful, and deceptive prattle, which represents Christ solely as a Teacher of works, as though He had taught and showed us nothing but proper conduct and behavior. In that capacity He could not be called the Way; then He would be no more than a cross or a votive picture on the wayside. This indeed directs the wayfarer correctly, but it itself does not bear him along.
- Martin Luther
True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";
- Martin Luther
Virtue, after all, isn't just about morals in the sense of "knowing the standards to live up to" or "knowing which rules you're supposed to keep." Virtue, as we have already seen, is about the whole of life, not just the specifically "moral" choices.
- NT Wright