Quotes About Behavior

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

[T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Societies decline when the upper classes emulate the lower classes.

incapacity to commit oneself to any value system beyond one supplying self-serving needs usually indicates severe narcissistic pathology. The

Narcissistic deterioration

For the most part people are cruel, cruel if only from lack of thought.

One good way to inventory ourselves is to ask ourselves questions about specific character traits. Then we examine in writing the ways that we've exhibited these characteristics in our lives. For instance, we might ask ourselves if we have been prideful. Have arrogance and false pride characterized our behavior? If so, we list them in our inventory. Then, we illustrate the characteristic of pride by listing examples of how pride has caused us to act.

Habits change into character.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

The obligations imposed on the government by the Bill of Rights are not a quid pro quo offered to its subjects but the expression of principles of right behavior.

The creature we call a GENTLEMAN lies deep in the hearts of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.

Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.