Behave Quotes

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.