Quotes About Behavior

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

It is better to act right than seek right.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Os políticos nunca se atrevem a criticar o povo, que muitas vezes é vil e cobarde e insensato, nunca o censuram nem lhe repreendem a conduta, antes o elogiam invariavelmente, quando pouco costuma ter de elogiável, seja o de que sítio for.

el silencio resulta admisible mientras alguno de los que lo guardan está haciendo cosas

If you abuse a collie when it is a puppy, she may shy away from people when she grows up. If you abuse a German shepherd, she may bite people when she is an adult. A pit bull may kill people when she grows up. A shih tzu will probably still love people when she grows up (and maybe become a therapist).

An employer's decision-making process is less rational than you might think.

It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.

Counselees continually confuse learned behavior patterns with inherited nature (phusis). Counselors may take it as a rule that any quality of life, attitude of mind, or activity that God requires of man may be acquired through the Lord Jesus Christ.

On the whole, punishments that are productive (work details above and beyond ordinary chores) are the best punishments whenever they can be devised. Ordinary chores ought not to be used as punishments since parents should endeavor to get their children to enjoy helping out in the family.

El objetivo número tres, consistente en lograr que el público haga algo o deje de hacerlo

The argument which is made by a man's life is of more weight than that which is furnished by words. —ISOCRATES

A bullying occasion should not be about the bully. That's just what the bully wants. It's about the audience. And a bully can give you the chance to enhance your ethos to that audience.

The Discovery Channel had a fascinating show on the mating habits of hyenas. They said that the male hyena often will get angry at the female hyena while they are having sex. It doesn't help that the female hyena is laughing at you all the time.

sublimation concept—in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Habits form a second nature.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.