Quotes about Behavior

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

The habit of saying thank you is the mark of a cultivated mind.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.

every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.

selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.

energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness: