infectious behavior Quotes

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

All vigor is contagious.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.