Quotes About Behavior

If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?

You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can't carry yourself the right way.

Lead by example, not by instruction.

Be the character you want to be described as!(In a good way, of course!)

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Know that true change is demonstrated only by your actions around everyone, not just certain people.

Change your thoughtsChange your demeanor

Never focus on achieving your goals, focus on achieving the behaviors and beliefs that will help you achieve your goals

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.