Quotes about Behavior
When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)
— Marcus Aurelius
Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?
— Marcus Aurelius
if you want people to leave you alone you should act crazy.
— Margaret Atwood
But hatred and viciousness are addictive.
— Margaret Atwood
Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.
— Margaret Atwood
You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.
— Margaret Atwood
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
— Dale Carnegie
Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have such little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.
— Anne Frank
Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.
— Anne Frank
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
— Anne Lamott
If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.
— Anne Lamott