Quotes About Behavior

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Custom is second nature, and no less powerful.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.