Quotes Tagged "conduct"

Deep conviction leads to change in conduct.

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

Awareness is an awakened state of mind that shows us what we need to see in order to conduct our lives free from emotional pain and suffering.

What is this satsang (in Akram) like? Here, there are no such botherations of, 'do this', 'do good', 'do that', 'ask for forgiveness', 'do introspection', 'do chanting', 'do penance'. Here, One does not have to 'do' anything. Here, One just needs to Know and to understand. The right belief of 'I am pure Soul' (Samkit) can be attained only through understanding and Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) arises through Knowing. And the One who has Known and understood, He can have the right Conduct as the Self (samyak Charitra).

Moksha is indeed one’s own nature. When (one’s) knowledge-vision-conduct become enlightened (samayak,becomes right), that is called moksha.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.

The real training is building character for a good conduct.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

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

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.