Best behavior & good-behavior Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behaviour and what I thought was bad behaviour and tailoring myself accordingly.”

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Author:Mark Strong

“In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.”

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Author:Josephine Tey

“C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.”

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Author:John Muir

“Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!”

“Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”

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Book:Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Source: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

“Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“Good behavior wins even an enemy.”

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Author:Chanakya

“This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.”

“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.”

“There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.”

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Author:John Adams

“Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband.”

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Author:Laura Bush

“We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.”

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Author:Douglas Horton

“If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?”

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Author:Marquis de Sade

“In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.”

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Author:David Brooks

“What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.”

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Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”

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Author:Randall Terry

“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”

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Book:The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”

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Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.”

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Author:John Buford

“Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.”

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Author:Buck Brannaman

“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

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