Behavior Quotes

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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 is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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.

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

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

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.

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

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