Behavior Quotes

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine. "Mind your own buisness.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.

People are not their behaviors.

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.

A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100, 000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.