(1131 quotes found)
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best way to behave is to misbehave.”
Mae West
“We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.”
Ian Percy
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
Bernard Edmonds
“Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”
C.S. Lewis
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
Albert Einstein
“Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.”
Francesca M. Cancian
“People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives”
Thomas Mann
“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”
John W. Holt Jr.
“Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”
Confucius