Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.