Behavior Quotes

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

I do a lot of strange things.

Men, in general, are but great children.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

Dogs love to go for rides. A dog will happily get into any vehicle going anywhere.

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

You become what you do most of the time.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

What holds attention determines action.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

Desponding Phyllis was endu'dWith ev'ry Talent of a Prude,She trembled when a Man drew near;Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:If o'er against her you were plac'dShe durst not look above your Waist

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

Your action expresses your priorities.

Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

Whining is just unbecoming.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.