Quotes about Behavior

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

Manners is treating people with respect.

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.

The problem is not primarily external and resolved by learning to behave better. The problem is internal

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.