Behavior Quotes - Page 2

what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be

The best evidence of unsophisticated ides is the behavior that follows.

R.A.Delmonico

Behavior slays the dragon of illusion and reveals the truth.

...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

Mango Wodzak

If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?

Mahatma Gandhi

It took me a long time to realize that when someone is not sorry for their behavior, that's their problem, not mine... I'll forgive them anyway, for me. Sometimes forgiveness is loving yourself enough to move on.

Steve Maraboli

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.

Michael Lewis

Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they’re passing around a basket.

Steve Maraboli

Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.

James C. Dobson

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

Salman Rushdie

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

James C. Dobson

You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.

Molly Ringle

Behavior speaks… If you’re chasing them, it means they’re running from you. Save your energy.

Steve Maraboli

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

Heraclitus

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

Jillian Michaels

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Philip G. Zimbardo

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.

O.R. Melling

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

Garrison Keillor

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip G. Zimbardo

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Oscar Wilde

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Jacqueline Carey

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

P.J. O'Rourke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Arthur C. Clarke

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip G. Zimbardo

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Philip G. Zimbardo

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Catherynne M. Valente

I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance

Josh Stern

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip G. Zimbardo

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip G. Zimbardo

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Philip G. Zimbardo

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

Steven Magee

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

Nabil N. Jamal

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Cesare Pavese

Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.

Steve Maraboli

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 G. Zimbardo

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

David Eagleman

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

Tasneem Hameed

I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.

Brian L. Weiss

My behavior last night was poor.""Poor?" Agatha coughed. "You pushed me through a window!

Soman Chainani

We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)

Erik Pevernagie

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

Matt Ridley

The quickest way to change a child's behavior and attitude is to get him involved in fixing his mistake. The best way to inspire a child to do better in the future is to give him an opportunity to do better in the present. A punishment makes him feel bad about himself. Making amends helps him feel good about himself, and helps him to see himself as a person who can do good.

Joanna Faber

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

Joanna Faber

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

Toba Beta

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

Paul Colaianni

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

Ryan Lilly

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

John R. Dallas Jr.

By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered

Sunday Adelaja

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

Bonnie Marcus

Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.

Patty Houser

...the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems...If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine,then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.

Buckman

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

Donna Barr

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Gabor Maté

I can’t control your behavior; nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.

Steve Maraboli

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

Taylor Nadeau

For the first time I was beginning to discern a God whom I actually wanted to live for. I was beginning to discover the motivation of Paul when he proclaimed, “Christ’s love compels us” (2 Cor. 5: 14). All my life I’d tried to be good to avoid hell, or the ugly-stick flogging, or my stepmother’s beatings with a two-by-four. But while most people would undoubtedly be better at behaving well with these frightful motivations than I ever was, no one could ever be transformed by these sorts of motivations. Threatening motivations address behavior, but they can never transform our identity. They motivate people to change as a means of protecting themselves, but for this reason they can never move us beyond ourselves to become someone fundamentally different from who we currently are. And threatening motivations can certainly never transform us into people with an other-oriented, self-sacrificial, loving character. Only a motivation that is anchored in love can do this.

Gregory A. Boyd

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