Life Conduct Quotes

... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.