Quotes about Conduct

Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

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.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

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.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

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.