Quotes About Behavior

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.