Behave Quotes

• Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  Beatrix Potter

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics

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• Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmosphere, May, Aroma

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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• I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

  John Irving

  Sympathy, Laughter, People

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Famous Motivational

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  E. O. Wilson

  Hard Times, Goal, Giving

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• We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Wish, Should

  See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Race, Wish

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• You are capable of more than you ever thought.

  Richard Machowicz

  Aim High, Persist, Great Powerful

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• Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything

  Akon

  Two, Way, Success In Life

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• The best way to behave is to misbehave.

  Mae West

  Women, Empowering, Way

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Fashion, Century

  "Kerry condemns Russia's 'incredible act of aggression' in Ukraine" by Will Dunham, www.reuters.com. March 2, 2014.

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• Behave simply and hold on to purity.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Purity

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• You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

  Benjamin Watson

  Destiny, Entrepreneur, Want

  Source: thesource.com

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loss, Men, Skills

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• When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Character, People, Calm

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Looks, Normal, Appearance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Power, Noble

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• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Strength, Fate

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  War, Dirty, Army

  Ms., Spring 1972

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• All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Psychology, Magic

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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