Contagious Behavior Quotes

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Yawns are hard to refute.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

Emotion is contagious.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Suicide is very contagious.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation with a smile instead of scowl, or by giving warm praise instead of icy indifference. By our being understanding instead of abrupt, others, in turn, may decide to hold on a little longer rather than to give way. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

Crime is contagious.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass and I'd get a box of matches. You chuck one match on that and the whole thing goes up in flames. Twitter's a bit like that. You can just say one thing and it explodes from there.