Quotes About Behavior

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

or if the bully denies the behavior, give examples. Understand that you may not get the bully to back down and agree that the behavior was out of line. Be prepared to offer your resolution by stating specifically how you expect to be treated. If the bullying continues, document each incident. Your documentation should speak for itself so include date and time, what the person said or did, and if there were any witnesses to the conversation.

Going forward, I expect you to treat me respectfully. If you don't or can't, then please don't say anything to me. (compromise) I don't deserve to be treated this way, and I'm not going to accept it anymore

Ma eccola lì, la gente sempre pronta a disapprovare, seduta al ristorante a sgranocchiare ossicini.

In spite of his policeman's conditioning, he clung to the belief he'd grown up with: that people, by and large, behaved according to how they were treated.

A Doberman Pinscher can sometimes spontaneously run riot, often even leaving the field entirely. After a short time, he will come back with an amazed look in his eyes and happily jump on his desperately calling handler.

The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!

What that bird would have done with a couple of Martinis under his fur would have been something to watch from an airplane.

Nothing is nonsense that is concerned with the vagaries of human conduct.

Enforced courtesy is worse than none.

Do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

Just because everyone's doing it doesn't make it right. Wrong's wrong, even in a ruddy war.

The power of a good idea is that it convinces people to change their behaviour themselves – no physical coercion is required. Do it right, and they'll even think it was their own idea.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

It might not seem like much, but what most people don't get is that there's a world of difference between not being cruel and being kind.

Sometimes sadness teaches lessons that lead to more sadness, but sometimes it can lead to changed behavior. Sometimes happiness cannot figure out how to give itself to others. Sometimes joy can only be lived, a lucky chance that one takes, a risk that says damn the consequences.

Overconfident investors generally believe that they have more knowledge and information than they actually have. As a result, they tend to trade too much and underperform the market.

Bonus vir nm est nisi qu bonus est omnibus. (Publilius Sent.)

I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Scott calls Bois-Guilbert 'an unprincipled voluptuary,' which is hard to improve on.

Homosexual activity will not incur God's punishment: it is its own punishment, an

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.