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Letter "C" » conduct
«Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
beyond control, circumstances, conduct
«A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment»
Author: Ernest Bramah
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
a thousand, conduct, conducts, depend, depend upon, reputation, thousand
«'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
approves, approving, conduct, firm, pursue, shrink, shrinks, The Business, Tis
«All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Experience,
Life
| Keywords:
activity, advancement, advancements, conduct, determined, for the most part, impediments, perseverance, resolution, steady, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, The Conduct of Life, thrown, zeal
«A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
accord, complexes, conduct, directs, eliminate, eliminates, Eliminating, get into, legitimately, strive
«Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
conduct, converted, conviction, worthless
«Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bundles, bundling, conduct, habits, heed, heeded, heeds, mere, plastic, plastics, walking
«By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
authoritarian, beliefs, beyond, conduct, conducts, Contraries, contrary, dogmas, dominated by, dominating, emotional, evidence, held, inculcate, inculcated, intellectual, mean, methods, set, The Conduct of Life
«All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
appear, at first, conduct, evolution, heresy, misconduct
«Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.»
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