#Behavior Quotes

“Such antics do not amount to a man.”

“Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.”

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

“Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.”

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

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers.”

“Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.”

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

“We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.”

“You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.”

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

“How use doth breed a habit in a man.”

“Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.”

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

“A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.”

“A good deal of our politics is physiological.”

“Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”

“Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.”

“It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.”

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

“Action often precedes the feeling.”

“A woman's fitness comes by fits.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.”

“No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.”

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

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

“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.”

“Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.”

“a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries”

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

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Watch your habits, they determine your character.”

“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.”

“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.”

“We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.”

“The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.”

“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”

“You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.”

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

“You become what you do most of the time.”

“Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.”

“The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.”

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”