Quotes About Behavior

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

The high cost of low living.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

In place of thoughts it has impulses, habits, and emotions.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.

What they don't understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.

For most of human history, problems with learning, emotion, or behavior have been viewed through the lens of morality, often colored by theology.