Quotes About Behavior

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.