Behavior Quotes

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

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

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

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

Can you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked. I gave him what I hoped was a seductive smile as I found my seat. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

Behavior shapes emotions.

Behavior shapes beliefs.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.

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.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

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

I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.