Quotes About Behavior

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.