Behavior Quotes

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

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

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

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

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!