Quotes About Behavior

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

actions speak louder than words

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance