Quotes about Behavior

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern 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.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

From natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.

Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

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

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.