Behavior Quotes

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

A child needs your love most when he deserves it least

If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

You ain't never seen nothing crazier than this n - -a when he off his Lexapro.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

Nothing is so contagious as example.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

Nothing is so catching as example.

everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.