behavior Quotes

Most people are naturally more influenced by fear than by respect, and they avoid evil more because of the punishment it brings than because it's wrong.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

Some animals make a loud sound. Some are quiet, and others have a voice, which sometimes can be put into words; other times it cannot. There are also noisy animals and quiet animals, musical and unmusical types, but they are... ...

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Cleverness is a refined way of being rude.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any... ...

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us