Quotes About Behavior

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Action is character.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.