Quotes About Behavior

A man's real belief is that which he lives by;

Why, you don't seem even to know the good of the things you are constantly doing. Now don't mistake me. I don't mean you are good for doing them. It is a good thing to eat your breakfast, but you don't fancy it's very good of you to do it. The thing is good, not you.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses , and purred so affectionately , that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded

Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic — indeed, it is a species of magic.

Todos los niños son unos cerdos.

As for queueing-up, during the past five or ten years it has become what the psychologists call a conditioned reflex. If you put a dozen English people together, they form themselves into a queue almost instinctively.

Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.

Wydaje ci siÄ™, ?e istnieje coÅ› takiego jak natura ludzka, która oburzona tym, co robimy, zwróci siÄ™ przeciwko nam. Ale pamiÄ™taj, ?e to my ksztaÅ'tujemy ludzkÄ… naturÄ™. CzÅ'owiek jest nieskoÅ"czenie podatny na formowanie.

To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

Onze daden kunnen slechts zo verstandig zijn als onze gedachten.

Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us.

It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn't so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

He was not perfect; he was, remember, a little boy. Could be wild, naughty, overwrought. He was a boy. However - it must be said - he was quite a good boy.

Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal sin is a lifestyle, not one startling transgression. Some

The "easy-to-decide-on" product wins because customers tend to follow the path of least resistance.

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.