Quotes About Behavior

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.