Quotes About Behavior

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.