Behavior Quotes

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

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

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad 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].

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

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

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.