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Quotes About Behavior

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.
~ Frans de Waal
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
~ Danny Silk
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
~ William Hazlitt
Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
~ Jose Saramago
The power of habit is very strong.
~ Publilius Syrus
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
~ Orson Scott Card
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
~ Ovid
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
~ Simon Mainwaring
Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
~ Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
How a woman thinks is often how she lives.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
~ Jim George
We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.
~ John Gray
Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'
~ Daisy Waugh
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.
~ James MacDonald
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
~ Nick Clooney