Quotes About Behavior

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

You become what you do most of the time.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.