Quotes About Behavior

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados.

Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock.

It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.

Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in a state of chronic, almost infantile, dependency. The pervasive atmosphere of distrust, together with rules covering the most minute aspects of existence, teach students every day that they are not people of worth, and certainly not individuals capable of regulating their own behavior.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.