T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
Mr. TI don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.
Taylor SwiftThe less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint EastwoodTo keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine HepburnA superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
ConfuciusThe virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
BuddhaI didn’t just invent saying offensive things.
EminemWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher HitchensIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.
Jerry SeinfeldThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauA man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.
H. L. MenckenThe more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen CoveyA gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Oscar WildeThe superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
ConfuciusI can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.
Kanye WestI’ve got a great sense of humor.
Anthony HopkinsI realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘
EminemPersonal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest HemingwayI have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
Christopher HitchensIt is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.
Angelina JolieNo sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry FordA lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.
Stephen CurrySilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor SwiftI got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.
Kevin HartHe who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
VoltaireOf course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai LamaI’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn MonroeYou must reward the kind of behavior that you want.
Jim MattisHumanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CummingsThe infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice WalkerSheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
John MuirJuvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellHave you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George CarlinI’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.
Jocko WillinkIf you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.
John C. MaxwellAlmost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t do any vulgar movements.
Elvis PresleyThe young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
AristotleActions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel JohnsonMy concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. NixonThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettI know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
Alice WalkerWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard ShawWhen I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘
Steven WrightEvery action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Leonardo da VinciPeople who think too much before they act don’t act too much.
Jimmy BuffettMy genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.
Dwayne JohnsonI’m crepuscular.
Christopher HitchensWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusPeople expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
Robert GreenePeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanThere are some loony people in this world!
Dolly PartonIf 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.
Margaret AtwoodAll the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John WayneI’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.
DrakeThe opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire