Quotes About Behavior

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Men often marry their mothers.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.