Quotes About Behavior

Habit is stronger than reason.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.