Quotes About Behavior

You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies. You just try to tell 'em, 'Look, be good. Behave yourselves. If you're good and mind us, you can get a lot out of life, but if you don't mind us, we will give you nothing and take away what we've already given you.

Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations.

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't ... remarking on their ways like you was so high and mighty. Yo' folks might be better ... bu tit don't count for nothin' the way you're discracin' 'em.

Morality, as I understand it, has to do particularly with how we ought to conduct ourselves in our relations with others.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

we've developed a three-stage process to help organizations figure out what's getting in the way of change. First, managers guide employees through a set of questions designed to uncover competing commitments. Next, employees examine these commitments to determine the underlying assumptions at their core. And finally, employees start the process of changing their behavior.

Single male CEOs take bigger financial risks in order to appear more attractive.

There is good evidence that when people are put under pressure, they regress to their most habituated ways of responding

Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on customer type and define the needs of representative customers in those segments. But actual human beings don't behave like statistically average customers. The

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

The New American Commentary on 1 John puts the idea of your sin into perspective with the statement that "you are not sinful because you sin, you sin because you are sinful."2

Violence never gives you a specific feeling that it's time to knock it off. That's because it is impossible to satisfy.

You can learn how to be an aristocrat by following a few rules in a very short book. There is nothing to it." He gave the boy a small copy of a book called Manners for the Perfect Gentry. He taught Pierrot to hold his chin up higher and to cry out that he didn't know why on earth he wasn't in Italy.

Ben bu toplumun d???na at?lm?? olmasayd?m, insan topluluÄŸuna açt???m bu savaÅŸ, kötü bir davran?? say?labilirdi.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.

C'est un des grands mystères de la nature : pourquoi ouvre-t-on toujours la bouche pour se mettre du mascara ?

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.