Quotes About Behavior

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass

Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people.

A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.

Persuasion psychology expert Robert Cialdini

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

He wiped his nose with his sleeve. Gross me out the door.

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

My old man was eighty-six per cent white bread and a hundred per cent asshole.

The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling our impulses in one area, it becomes harder to control our impulses in others. Or, as the psychologist Roy Baumeister puts it, will power is like a muscle: overuse temporarily exhausts it.

Selfish children are just doing what they were taught!

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Walk your talk.

The world was far more complicated and nuanced than his categorical moral vision had led him to believe. The ability to learn from the excesses of his egocentric behavior, to alter course, to profit from error, was essential to his growth.

Yes. Laugh. But there's sense in the old rules. They kept people out of trouble.' He was annoyed because I laughed, and said that a woman in my position needed extra dignity of behaviour. 'What position?' - I was suddenly very angry, because of the trapped feeling women get at such moments.

Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nut, but there's just one person, with that person, she's out of control. It makes you wonder,' said Alice.

As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.