Top 1200 Civilized Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Reading civilized the inner life.

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military experience. But it came before that. I love their freedom of behavior. They're not constrained by penal attitudes, puritanical attitudes about behavior, both socially and morally. They have a freedom that I admire. An unquestioned freedom.

White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.

There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

Glamour is just sex that got civilized.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.