Quotes About Behavior

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.

Before asking God's forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].

Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.

Celebrating small wins gives them something to repattern our life around.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time.

One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates's nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency to emphasize their physical defects and/or dubious upbringing on the other.

I don't disrespect anybody, but if I get disrespected, I'm over with you.

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

People, she realized, had rhythms, too. Unique ways of behaving and talking.

I think of culture as the unwritten constitution," said Fritz Maytag. "Rome had no written constitution, just a common understanding about how people should behave. When that fell apart, the Roman Empire did, too.

Playing and giving are closely related, they are the behavioral and transactional facets of the same impulse, the play-instinct. They share an aristocratic disdain for results.

You can judge someone's character by what he does when no one's watching.