Quotes About Behavior

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

There is even the dignity of vice.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

You are what you do, not what you say.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.