Quotes about Behavior
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- George Washington
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
- CS Lewis
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
- Maria Edgeworth
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
- Anonymous
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
- Aldous Huxley
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway