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Quotes About Behavior

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Ninguém é nada sozinho, somos o nosso comportamento com o outro.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Dizem que a lei existe para contrariar a natureza. Se o Homem sempre seguisse seus instintos naturais e matasse, roubasse e passasse a mão na bunda do próximo sem qualquer punição, onde estaríamos? No Brasil, acertou.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said what it was. Possibly, to many of them, all it meant was the right to have money. Or get more of it.
~ Lydia Millet
Il modo in cui ci comportiamo con gli altri, anche nelle cose più piccole, è una misura del nostro valore come esseri umani.
~ Lynne Truss
Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch, Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.
~ Lynsay Sands
She has driven into town to get the mail. He had no intention of taking you anywhere but to your bed. He is a dog," he growled, and then glared at Dave and added, "Although that seems to me to be an insult to Bailey and her kind. She would never behave in so unsavory a manner.
~ Lynsay Sands
I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior." "No?" Thomas grinned. "You berated me in Portuguese. For all I knew you were telling me I was the sexiest thing you'd seen in your life." "In your dreams," Inez chuckled.
~ Lynsay Sands
Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
~ M. John Harrison
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
~ M. Scott Peck
It is said that "neurotics make themselves miserable; those with character disorders make everyone else miserable." Chief among the people character-disordered parents make miserable are their children. As in other areas of their lives, they fail to assume adequate responsibility for their parenting. They tend to brush off their children in thousands of little ways rather than provide them with needed attention.
~ M. Scott Peck
Because our actions are based on our understanding, our behavior will then become unrealistic. When this occurs to a sufficient degree our fellow citizens will recognize that we are "out of touch with reality," and will deem us mentally ill even though we ourselves are most likely convinced of our sanity.
~ M. Scott Peck
If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
~ M. Scott Peck
Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment.
~ M. Scott Peck
Dependency is but one of the forms of behavior to which we incorrectly apply the word "love" when concern for spiritual evolution is absent.
~ M. Scott Peck
Let beloved idiots ruin their own lives, if that's what they're dead set on doing, with no attempt whatsoever at control or behavior modification from you.
~ M.A. Harper
Ce ciudate mai sunt È™i relaÈ›iile dintre oameni. Ne purt?m frumos, ba chiar exagerat de frumos, cu acei oameni de care ne e team?, în schimb cu cei timizi È™i retraÈ™i ne purt?m ca niÈ™te despoÈ›i. (...) Cu toÈ›ii avem o natur? dubl?.
~ Ma Jian
Vadiação é bom costume.
~ Machado de Assis
Um homem verdadeiramente grave não pode gastar menos de dois minutos em tirar o lenço e assoar-se.
~ Machado de Assis
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Idiot," Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. "Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle