Behavior Quotes

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.