Right Conduct Quotes:

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.58, Routledge

topic: Ignorance, Knowledge, Right Conduct

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.120, Xist Publishing

topic: Body, Right Conduct, Felt, Mr Knightley

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Change, Success, Philosophical, Top Management, Managing Change

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead 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. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

topic: Life, Mean, Responsibility, Mans Search For Meaning, Right Conduct

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Live In The Moment, Matter, Moments, Right Conduct

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspiration, Men, Law, Chinese Proverb, Right Conduct

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

- Sathya Sai Baba

source: FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 15, 2016

topic: Love, Peace, Understanding, Truth Love, Right Conduct

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

topic: Determination, Children, Educational, Molding, Hearsay

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.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Deep Life, Honor, Expedience, Right Conduct

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Work, Compassion, Humanity, Right Conduct

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

- Sivananda

topic: Character, Law, Form, Right Conduct

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

- Sallust

topic: Virtue, Natural, Whole Life, Right Conduct

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Religion, Atrocities, Institutions, Right Conduct

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Promise, May, Firsts, Right Conduct

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

topic: Love Is, Men, Two, Right Conduct, Good Breeding

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Thinking, Law, Two, Moral Law, Right Conduct

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

- Plotinus

topic: Right Conduct

The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Air, Effort, Scripture, Prana, Right Conduct

...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.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

topic: Thinking, Meditation, Answers, Mans Search For Meaning, Right Conduct

Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Love Is, Thinking, Hatred, Human Values, Right Conduct

You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Religious, Heart, Names, Right Conduct

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Cities, Heaven, Age, Right Conduct

We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.

- Sandra Postel

topic: Rights, Water, Decision, Right Conduct

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

- Elihu Root

topic: Men, Ideas, Perfection, Police Force, Right Conduct

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

- Virchand Gandhi

topic: Long, Soul, Evolution, Right Conduct

Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.

- Ibn Ata Allah

topic: Passion, Feet, Realization, Right Conduct