Quotes About Behavior

Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love:

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature;

When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.

Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.

But my behavior was really the result of the illness, which had progressed far enough to produce some of its most famous and sinister hallmarks: confusion, failure of mental focus and lapse of memory.

greed is not a racial but a human prediliction and

If, however, you would like to see the behavior change, it is more effective not to attack the person outright but to focus hard on the problematic behavior.

A behavioral proposal focuses on what you'd like the other to do, not on who you'd like the other to be.

Framing your solution negatively, such as "Don't shout at me," tends to focus the other's attention even more on the unwanted behavior and may unconsciously reinforce it, particularly if you are shouting back at them. It is more effective to say, quietly, "Please talk to me in a quiet tone." Focus the other's mind clearly on the positive action you want them to take.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Samie was one of those nosy kind of cats. He would lie up on the red oak limbs and watch every move I made.

Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?' 'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Un cattivo trattamento rende feroci anche i più dolci di noi.

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind