Quotes About Behavior

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will—slowly—gradually—imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

Anne Brontë studies the dynamics of group mentality, the mutual reinforcement of male 'club' behaviour.

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!

I've been astonished, time and again, at such rudeness and most of all … at such stupidity (Mrs. van Daan).

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave very differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have so little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.

If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.

Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more generous, which is the ultimate healing? Or more patient, which is a close second? Did your world become bigger and juicier and more tender? Have you become ever so slightly kinder to yourself? This is how you tell.

My father treated them with respect and kindness, his main philosophical and spiritual position being: Don't be an asshole.

Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made them spontaneous and immediate could also make them mean...The other teachers and I had dreamed of taking the kids on field trips, to remove them from the grip and tangle of life -- of a day on the beach; of sandy, sacramental hot dogs; of playing in the ocean, making sculptures, and drawing with sticks. But we could barely manage them in class.

The last word will not be our bad thoughts and behavior, but mercy, love, and forgiveness.

Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.

Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.

Never, in any circumstance, should you raise your voice, or try to assert your opinions in the hearing of gentlemen, and do not attempt to appear clever or strong-minded; it is dangerous, and makes them extremely uncomfortable.

Beasts may kill one another, they may ignore the sick or distressed—but they never mock.