Quotes About Behavior

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.