Quotes About Behavior

the founders believed a president should cool the passions of the people, not inflame them, because the national temperature would have a direct effect on the health of the republic. A president who was acting presidential would constrain his or her behavior accordingly.

I beg your pardon," said Abbot. "You are quite right, of course. I am not myself fond of bad taste, though I am always displaying it. Go on.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.