Because
we're imperfect human beings, all of us are tempted to behave in ways that are,
in no particular order, 1. Counterproductive to our own best interests 2. Unfair
to other people, or 3. Just plan wrong. The next time you're tempted to do
something privately that you wouldn't want known publicly, consider the
following words of wisdom . . . and behave accordingly.
Do the Right
Thing and the Wise Thing
"It is human nature to think wisely and act
foolishly."
Anatole France
"Your heart often knows things before your mind does."
Polly Adler
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make
yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
Pearl Buck
"You should not live one way in private, another in public."
Publilius Syrus
"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plant Seeds of Goodness in the Soil of Eternity
"Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his
image."
Goethe
"Act well and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
Johann Lavatar
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
Kahlil Gibran
"Every evening we should look back at the day and think about it. What
problems did I solve? What harmful habits did I change? What wrongdoing did I
avoid? What good habits did I practice?"
Seneca
"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
St. Jerome
Make Yourself the Yardstick by Which Right Behavior is
Measured
"Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the
principle of a universal law."
Immanuel Kant
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world
were watching."
Thomas Jefferson
"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after
you."
James Freeman Clarke
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few
hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright
gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
Alfred Adler
"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you to
correct for subjective error."
Linus Pauling
