Quotes About Behavior

The violence of many Viking raids must not obscure the fact that the Vikings also enjoyed peaceful relations with the world around them, based on accepted norms for social behaviour and on special agreements.

Either I was genetically predisposed to losing my rag, or I unconsciously learned by example. Whichever it was, it has proved a catastrophic pain in the arse for me and everyone around me for most of my adult life.

La mentira no es siempre necesaria, pero es algo a lo que te acostumbras y no puedes parar

Una cola que a veces da la vuelta a la esquina y que los neoyorquinos guardan con disciplina porque es un país obsesionado con las colas, no sólo con respetarlas sino por situarse, como en el colegio, unos detrás de los otros, sin tonterías.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

What could be sweeter to us than to hear and persuade ourselves that we can be saved, even if we live like a savage beast? Even non-Christians see that this is false, and many of them shudder at Christian teachings when they observe how Christians live.

Love/Kindness is better proven than spoken i.e. you should always prove that you are loveful or kind by showing love and kindness to everyone rather than by merely saying it over and over again. ~Emeasoba George

Positive thinking and positive speaking do pay off i.e. they often yield good results unlike negative thinking and negative speaking that often yield bad results. Thus, introspect your thoughts and you better watch your mouth as well. I mean, think, speak and act just positively at all times. ~Emeasoba George

True love is meant to be seen more in your actions or attitude towards all & sundry and less in your speeches or words towards them.

True love shouldn't be just a verbal expression. Rather, it's equally meant to be seen in your conducts or interactions towards/with others.

True love shouldn't be just a verbal expression. Rather, it's meant to be seen in your conducts or interactions towards/with others.

You are an ingrate and you will remain an ingrate until you imbibe/portray gratitude as your attitude/lifestyle for life.

Your actions ought to be louder than your words. Moreover, your actions do tell people more about you rather than your words. Besides, it is the collection of your actions that will eventually beget your reputation and never your words. -Emeasoba George

Nothing more abominable than the critic and, a fortiori, the philosopher in each of us: if I were a poet, I should behave like Dylan Thomas, who, when people would discuss his poems in his presence, would drop to the floor in a fit of convulsions.

Someone we regard highly comes closer to us when he performs an action unworthy of him--thereby he releases us from the cavalry of veneration. And starting from that moment we feel a true attachment to him.

To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse - to behave with them like an undertaker.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.

I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge)

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when I am with those girls, or little Charlie, I can be as good as gold, and so tame that that baby can lead me; I do believe evil qualities are more catching than measles.