Behavior Quotes
434 quotes
"Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did."
"Girls,"their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this."
"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."
"Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour."
"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders."
"You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them."
"Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others."
"They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds."
"Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn."
"In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying."
"There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough."
"Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this."
"Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence."
"If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much."
"The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection."
"Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship."
"Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To such a one, God is direct and spontaneous, providing him with an immediate source of guidance and direction. His relationship with God is not mediated through anyone or anything. (104)"
Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
"GPS has saved countless relationships because us men do not like to ask for directions. Now if women could only come with relationship GPS we would be one step closer to world peace."
"Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned."
"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies."
"Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift."
"Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave."
"Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain."
"Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption."
"Most people talk, but say nothing. That’s ok because nobody is listening anyway. Let today be the day you stop with words and take ACTION! Shut-up and say something with your behavior... Dream. Plan. Act."
"The universe makes it possible.Your mindset makes it probable.Your behavior makes it reality."
"you catch your goal is not declare your success, But you catch your goal after your behavior with people is declare your success."
"Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior."
Urie Bronfenbrenner, Two Worlds of Childhood: U. S. & U. S. S. R.
"Words are great, but actions speak louder!"
Marcie Beigel, Love Your Classroom Again: Realistic Behavior Strategies for Educators
"We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed."
"Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness."
Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
"If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love."
Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
"Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within."
"Pay attention… How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they’ll behave during relationship challenges."
"The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone."
"You can be humble without compromising your values."
"Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
"Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of every liberatory project."
Stan Goff, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
"Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions
"Many people are confused by their own behavior"
"There, an engaging tour guide told jokes and made witty quips in between sensationalized and brutal stories of inmates "getting what they deserved" because, as she put it, "if you gonna act like an animal, you gonna get treated like one." (We know, thanks to Goffman and pretty much every behavior study out there, that it often works the other way around.)"
"No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side."
"You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence"
"The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking"
"When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child"
"Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior"
"Developing the man within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior"
"A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late"
"Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself."
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