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Quotes About Behavior

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.
~ Julie Garwood
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I've grown up and understood how I'm supposed to conduct myself and I respect people as I go along the way.
~ Cliff Floyd
Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
~ Rachael Yamagata
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
~ Geoff Mulgan
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
~ Jerry Fodor
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't show arrogance anyone & never let anyone show you
~ Miss 47
I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
~ Erica Goros
People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
~ Rachel Hollis, Party Girl
When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?
~ Joseph Shrand MD
Teach people how to treat you
~ DivineConspiracy
His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra's 'My Kind of Town.
~ Jennifer Lane, Bad Behavior
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every act is an expression of one's self.
~ yoshikawa eiji ii
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
~ young brigham
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
~ young edward
You know how men are... always peering into the pot even when they're eating out of the bowl.
~ Yu Hua
You're daydreaming while you eat, aren't you? That's a child's habit.
~ Yukio Mishima
Apparently the demented mouse also suffered from an eating disorder
~ Yukio Mishima