Quotes about Conduct
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.
- Gordon Hinckley
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
- Joyce Meyer
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
- Confucius
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
- William Howard Taft
Character is what a man is in the dark.
- DL Moody
Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
- Thomas a Kempis
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Epictetus
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
- Cicero