Dignified Conduct Quotes

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

It's important to win with style.

As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.