Quotes About Behavior

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Right action is the key to good living.

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

You're only young once, but you can always be immature.

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

Boys will be boys.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Character is long-standing habit.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.