Quotes About Behavior

I've learned the best reason to take children on the road: children learn and understand how to behave by being exposed to new situations and watching others...As a teacher of children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, I came to understand that my students would work harder for a better life if they saw the life they were working for.

Imitation and repetition are the keys to discipline with the young child, not reasoning or punishment.

Our actions speak louder than our words with the young child, who cannot help but imitate. Through us, children learn whether or not their initial love and trust in the world were well founded.

The name of Nalwa became a terror in the tribal territory', and Pashtun mothers would for years frighten children into good behaviour by speaking of 'Haria', after Nalwa's first name.

Tolkien reveals that our personalities take on the quality of our acts. Outward behavior manifests inward convictions, whether for good or ill. "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it

What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth

Civilization depends on morality.

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Go put your creed into your deed.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!

We think intelligently yet act foolishly!

The scariest thing about people like Terrence and my parents is not that they can be cruel. It's that they can be kind too.

Belief means nothing without actions