Definition of Conduct

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Conduct

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.

To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.

To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

To conduct one's self; to behave.

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Conduct Quotations

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

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

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Napoleon Hill

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

Conduct Translations

conduct in Afrikaans is bestuur, lei, houding
conduct in Dutch is geleiden, leiden, de weg wijzen
conduct in Finnish is opastaa
conduct in Italian is comportamento, esercitare
conduct in Latin is ars; artis, mores; morium, induco, se gero
conduct in Portuguese is conduta
conduct in Spanish is modales, gestionar

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