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Quotes About Behavior

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.
~ Andy Grundberg
Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
~ Sonya Sones
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
~ Dan Simmons
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
~ Francis Bacon
Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.
~ Greg Saunier
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
~ Samuel Johnson
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
~ William Hazlitt
Never let anyone get the worst of you. For you too will become just like them
~ Bradley Shutter
Humans are beasts, until tamed.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior
~ he holds us accountable. (p79)
"If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.
~ L.M. Fields
Your lifestyle shows who your father is
~ Sunday Adelaja
People will follow your example, not your advice.
~ Simo Astel
It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Behavior slays the dragon of illusion and reveals the truth.
~ Steve Maraboli
Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.
~ Steve Maraboli
We tend to be judged because of our actions.
~ Roxy Writer
victimnoun ?vik-t?m 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.
~ David Cook
The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?
~ Michael Chabon
He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.
~ Michael Chabon
Midwives' experience of fathers is incidental but proficient, like a farmer's knowledge of bird migration or the behavior of clouds.
~ Michael Chabon
It's a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.
~ Michael Connelly