Quotes About Behavior

There's something about it that makes other good habits easier.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.