Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

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

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

Human behavior is timeless.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

I am a victim of my own behavior.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

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

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I didn't have a ton of role models back in 1998. So, when I was looking to get in, it was really just looking up at all the men who were out there. When you're not seeing women - when you're breaking into anything - it's like, "Well, this is what the men do and how they act, so we're going to just emulate that behavior.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior