Quotes about Behavior

I will form good habits and become their slave.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

You teach people how to treat you.

If you have gratitude, you don't have room for fear. And that was one of the biggest things—that fear holds us back so much. Fear is what causes so much of our bad behavior and our poor choices. And gratitude can't live with fear in the same way that love can't live with fear. So if you're grateful, you move to that place of love. And trust is soul, right? Trust is God.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established