Best Behavior Quotes

#1. He was in his secret room in the heart now. Having entered he could be bold. A man hasn't to be on his best behavior in Heaven; he can kick the furniture around. He can stoop down and picks up lumps of mortality without being born again to die.

Patrick Kavanagh

#2. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

Edna Buchanan

#3. Interviews seem like such artificial situations, everyone on their best behavior trying desperately to hide behind a professional facade. Did my face fit? I shall have to wait and see.

E.L. James

#4. In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Joseph J. Ellis

#5. Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Arthur Rock

#6. We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Victor Hugo

#7. Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

David Levithan

#8. Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity.

David Chiles

#9. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Colleen McCullough

#11. Butterflies in her stomach. Because she understood his words from last night now, knew that he'd been on his very, very best behavior. Tonight . . . tonight she'd be tangling with the dominant, wild heart of him.

Nalini Singh

#12. Hello," he said, on his best behavior now. "I just wanted to smell you." "Oh." Lines between her eyebrows, the tone of her voice making him want to close his eyes and just listen. "Do you sniff everyone you meet?

Nalini Singh

#13. Everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

Richard Dooling

#15. When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

Monica Crowley

#16. I think the interview went well, but it's so hard to say. Interviews seem such artificial situations; everyone on their best behavior trying desperately to hide behind a professional fa

E.L. James

#17. When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface

Chet Williamson

#18. It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Seth

#19. Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Lin Yutang

#20. It's all about perspective, I suppose. As a rule, all of the various ogre breeds are on their best behavior here at the market." "This one looks as though he would like to break that rule." I swallowed. "He looks as though he would like to break it across my face.

William Ritter

#21. Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#22. So often, well-meaning Christians pray for a visitation from God, but what He really wants is a habitation with us. He doesn't want to come into our lives as a guest while we are on our best behavior around Him until He leaves.

Jack Frost

#23. My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

Laura Wasser

#24. Meet me at your best behavior,
Meet me at your worst,
For there will be no stone left unturned,
Or bubble left to burst.

Death Cab For Cutie

#25. After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#26. I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Joe Wilson

#27. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.

Kimberly Giles

#28. In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.

Jane D. Hull

#29. Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

Tess Gerritsen

#30. In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs ... different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

Albert Bandura

#31. A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

Robert Aumann

#32. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Robert Ludlum

#33. Without penalizing bad behavior, the best lessons never gets learned.

Ben Tolosa

#34. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when

Martha Stout

#35. We are most fully ourselves when we admit that we are emotional beings, that we are defined by the ways we find though our behavior to express all these myriad emotions constantly bubbling beneath the surface of us as we try our fragile best to reason our way through the world.

Greg M. Epstein

#36. My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

Chris Zylka

#37. To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.

Paul Nicklen

#38. The parents may be one of the best indications of the future temperament of your new puppy. A surprising amount of behavior is inherited.

Anonymous

#39. I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.

Sam Brower

#40. When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.

Steven Sinofsky

#41. The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people's behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.

Jennifer O'Neill

#42. Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

Jean Chatzky

#43. I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

David E. Kelley

#44. Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer; but we have the worst customer service imaginable.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#45. It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Dee Hock

#46. I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

Clare Balding

#47. At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

John Carmack

#48. The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.

Matthew Henry

#49. Introverts keep their best stuff inside - that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert's behavior - and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts - is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#50. The best random keys are created by harnessing natural physical processes, such as radioactivity, which is known to exhibit truly random behavior. The

Simon Singh

#51. At best an autistic spectrum child may learn what's expected of him, and how to relate to those about him, but it never becomes instinctive. Even a high-functioning adult will sometimes use inappropriate language, conversation or behavior.

Sara Elliott Price

#52. I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

David Graeber

#53. If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

Tim Gunn

#54. Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.

George W. Bush

#55. Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

Owen Feltham

#56. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

#57. To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.

Russell Kyle

#58. The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Brion James

#59. The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.

Marci Shimoff

#60. I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.

Robert B. Parker

#61. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Joe Navarro

#62. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

#63. The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#64. 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.

Laura Bush

#65. It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

Nancy Gibbs

#66. The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Naoto Fukasawa

#67. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Robert Conquest

#68. Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Rick Perlstein

#69. One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

Frans De Waal

#70. Plant in tears, harvest with joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#71. And Pudgy," she called after him, causing him to hesitate at the door, "Sometimes the best way to change someone else's behavior is to change your own.

Anonymous

#72. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Neil T. Anderson

#73. What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

Mohith Agadi

#74. I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Gary D. Schmidt

#75. Some instincts are best left uncivilized

Agona Apell

#76. Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it - good, but not best.

Oswald Chambers

#77. The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

Walter Kirn

#78. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

Paola Antonelli

#79. The more attention you pay to a behavior, the more it will be repeated. Accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative are the best tools for increasing productivity.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#80. Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#81. I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.

William Faulkner

#82. One of the best ways to change human behavior is to gather people with similar problems together.

Anonymous

#83. When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.

Marilyn Suttle

#84. YOUR values determine your behavior, not what you think she wants, not what you think others want, but what is best for you and best for the relationship.

Mark Manson

#85. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.

Trista Sutter

#86. She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

E. M. Forster