Quotes About Behavior

Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.

Los rasgos de personalidad se caracterizan por tanto por la forma habitual de percibir nuestro entorno y a nosotros mismos, así como las maneras habituales de comportarse y reaccionar.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Don't sneeze, don't point at anybody with your little finger, don't scratch your left eyebrow, don't angle your knife so that it reflects light in somebody's eyes unless you're challenging them to a duel...

Bear] was curious and patient, but his fear could whip-crack into rage in an instant.

We are what we do and what we allow to be done.

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

Be a good witness by the way you live. The way we live is often more convincing than the words we say.

There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

The Bible teaches that faith will manifest itself in three ways. It will manifest itself in doctrine—in what you believe. It will manifest itself in worship—your communion with God . . .It will manifest itself in morality—in the way you live and behave.

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don't need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.

One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.

The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don't measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn't real.

Sin has progressed and gained momentum; [man] seems to have lost his ability to be shocked. Behavior that was once considered abominable is now acceptable.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.