Personal Conduct Quotes

In public, as well as private life, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured, is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy. If any man thinks he has been ridiculed, upon any of our public theatres, let him examine his actions he will find the cause, let him alter his conduct he will find a remedy

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring - he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring... he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.

No one's going to admit they're in favor of adulterers, although it may not be a group unfamiliar to the Senate. There have been some remarkably lecherous people in the Senate over the years.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

As was his language so was his life.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

Men are satisfied commonly if they can so regulate their lives as to escape the censure of men, and the disgrace which follows wicked actions.

Modesty and chastity are twins

I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

Next to financial impropriety, being charged with a reckless pursuit of women is certainly the most damaging thing you can accuse a public person of.

Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.

I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.