Quotes About Behavior

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Personality and Character Ethics

Sadat was able to use his self-awareness, his imagination and his conscience to exercise personal leadership, to change an essential paradigm, to change the way he saw the situation. He worked in the center of his Circle of Influence. And from that rescripting, that change in paradigm, flowed changes in behavior and attitude that affected millions of lives in the wider Circle of Concern.

Nuestra conducta es una función de nuestras decisiones, no de nuestras condiciones. Podemos subordinar los sentimientos a los valores. Tenemos la iniciativa y la responsabilidad de hacer que las cosas sucedan.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

La gente reactiva suele verse afectada por el medio ambiente. Si el clima es agradable, se sienten bien. Si no lo es, su actitud y desempeño se modifican. La gente proactiva lleva el buen clima consigo. Si afuera llueve o sale el sol, para ellos no hay diferencia alguna.7

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

No matter how much we worked on our attitude and behavior, our efforts were ineffective because, despite our actions and our words, what we really communicated to him was, "You aren't capable. You have to be protected." We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

probably know someone whose energy is devoted to justifying his or her position in an ongoing negative relationship. If you look, you can sometimes see beyond behavior into the center that creates it.

I have come to believe that humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way. We may do so but the consequences of our behavior flow from principles not our values. Therefore we should value principles.

We are what we repeatedly do.

you're not going to talk your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into.

Our language, for example, is a very real indicator of the degree to which we see ourselves as proactive people.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits

A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My friend," I said, "you can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

My criticism is worse than the conduct I want to correct. My ability to positively impact the situation withers and dies.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

The way we see things is the source of the way we think and the way we act.