Quotes About Behavior

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

'Tis the motive exalts the action, 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

Talkers are no good doers.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.