Robert Walpole Quotes

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

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• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morality
  • Inside
  • Conduct

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

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Business
  • Model
  • Conduct

• Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.

  

  Aristotle
  • Person
  • Characters
  • Result

• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Truths
  • Conduct

• An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Inspiration
  • Calm

• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Think
  • Conduct

• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Disposition

• A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Emotion

• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  

  Sophocles
  • Glory
  • Conduct
  • Ornament

• O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Shade
  • Followed

• The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Requires
  • Conduct
  • Distinct

• One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Disposition

• There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Disposition
  • Meanness

• The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Conduct
  • Superior Man

• If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

  

  Confucius
  • Demand
  • Conduct
  • Governing

• Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Funeral
  • Triumph
  • Conduct

• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Discipline
  • Guilty

• I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wife
  • Fit
  • Disposition

• 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
  • Religion
  • Judged
  • Conduct

• Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Hate
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Falling
  • Discovering
  • Astonishment

• 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
  • Conduct
  • Disposition
  • Followed