Quotes about Behavior

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

We all must try to be good.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, (P. 1)

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

From natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.