Quotes about Behavior
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Even we psychiatrists expect the reactions of a man to an abnormal situation, such as being committed to an asylum, to be abnormal in proportion to the degree of his normality.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
- Lao Tzu
Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.
- Lauraine Snelling
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
- Laurence Sterne
What we do flows from who we are.
- Charles Colson
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
- Charles Dickens
"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.
- Charles Dickens
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
- Charles Dickens
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
- Charles Dickens
Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.
- Charles Dickens
You shall read them, if you behave well,' said the old gentleman kindly; 'and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides,--that is, in some cases; because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- Charles Dickens
Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.