Quotes about Conduct
Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.
- Billy Graham
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
- Napoleon Hill
I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.
- Justin Welby
It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it
- William Temple
For the pharisee the emphasis is always on personal effort and achievement. The gospel of grace emphasizes the primacy of God's love. The pharisee savors impeccable conduct; the child delights in the relentless tenderness of God.
- Brennan Manning
If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt standstill.
- Brennan Manning
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- Henry David Thoreau
Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.
- Henry Blackaby
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
- William Law
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
- Albert Einstein
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Elbert Hubbard