Behavior Quotes

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example, is more prevalent than precepts.

He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also.

For usually when people are self-centered, they are self-centered because they are seeking attention, they want to be admired and this is the way they set out to do it. But in the process, because of their self-centeredness, they are not admired; they are mawkish and people don't want to be bothered with them. And so the very thing they seek, they never get. And they end up frustrated and unhappy and disillusioned.

This limited degree of concern is a reflection of an inner conflict which measures cautiously the impact of any change on the status quo. As the nation passes from opposing extremist behavior to the deeper and more pervasive elements of equality, white America reaffirms its bonds to the status quo. It had contemplated comfortably hugging the shoreline but now fears that the winds of change are blowing it out to sea.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.