#conduct

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#friends #habits #neighbors #beauty

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#conduct #motives #our #pretexts #usually

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#beneficial #business #conducted #conform #continue

I try to conduct my life with a little levity. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#i #levity #life #little #my life

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette. ↗

— Mos Def

#basic #better #buzz #code #conduct

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#am #answerable #argument #conduct #countries

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #conduct #crown #different #disposition

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

#conduct #drawn #ground #hereafter #i

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. ↗

— George Washington

#distinguished #first #force #greater #instances

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#mary-s-night-light #mutated-sheep #nonmetallic-conductivity #humor