Right Conduct Quotes

I play the game the right way.

Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Ethics to me is very important.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

A superior man thinks of what is right. A small man thinks of profit.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Do what is right because it is right.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.