Quotes About Behavior

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.

Heavy socialization is the single smartest investment you can make in a dog.

It's a tragic lost opportunity to delay taking a dog to class till he's an adolescent. Puppy classes are the way of the future.

Universul era o juxtapunere sau o întrep?trundere de mecanisme opace ?i de comportamente care luptau adeseori între ele ?i care se aranjau cum puteau. Ele se n??teau din hazard ?i necesitate, din educa?ie, din clasele sociale, din realit??ile economice, din ereditate ?i din mediu. Putea surveni orice, dar psihanaliza ?i marxismul sfâr?eau mereu prin a interpreta totul. Nu se mai încerca s? se în?eleag?, se explica.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

You don't have to dream when you habitually think good and do good.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.

Fewer teens having sex is one of the reasons behind what many see as one of the most positive youth trends in recent years: the teen birthrate hit an all-time low in 2015, cut by more than half since its modern peak in the early 1990s.

only 28% of 12th graders in 2015 attended services once a week, down from 40% in 1976.

Junk the self-esteem emphasis and teach self-control and good behavior. Self-esteem has limited benefit, whereas self-control is linked to success in life. Leave behind the obsession with specialness and uniqueness. Do not automatically side with your child.

self-esteem does not cause high grades-instead, high grades cause higher self-esteem. So self-esteem programs clearly put the cart before the horse in trying to increase self-esteem. ...Self-esteem is an outcome, not a cause. It doesn't do much good to encourage a child to feel good about himself just to feel good; this doesn't mean anything. Children develop true self-esteem from behaving well and accomplishing things.

Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.

We shall simply say then that every action involves an energetic or affective aspect and a structural or cognitive aspect, which, in fact, unites the different points of view already mentioned.

But if all behaviour, without exception, thus implies an energetics or an "economy", forming its affective aspect, the interaction with the environment which it instigates likewise requires a form or structure to determine the various possible circuits between subject and object.

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.