Behavior Quotes

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

Custom is second nature.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

People would do better, if they knew better.

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

No sober person dances.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Never do wrong when people are looking.

You should not complain, it's not attractive.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Loud threats often indicate deep fears

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.