Quotes About Behavior

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.