Behavior Quotes

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it’s so crowded.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does tells us what he is.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were the entire world looking at you, and act accordingly.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

I never did, or countenanced in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Behaviorism has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat a ratomorphic view of man.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.