Quotes About Behavior

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Men's language is as their lives.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.