Behavior Quotes

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

The behavior of some children suggests that their parents embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle.

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.

The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.