Behaviour Quotes - Page 3

You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.

Israelmore Ayivor

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Resentment leads to rude behaviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Men behaves according to their beliefs.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Stefan Molyneux

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology — rigid and unyielding.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)