Quotes About Behavior

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

It is important to correct bad behavior one toe at a time.

Is she always like this?" "No, usually worse.

No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Well done is better than well said.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.