Quotes About Behavior

I think politics come out of psychology.

Brixie wasn't talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in her own world, flaming away like a blowtorch. She was such an Internet fiend that she had never learned any other way to behave.»

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Summing up: Correctly interpreted, the simple economic model specifically predicts that people will be less selfish as voters than as consumers. Indeed, like diners at an all-you-can-eat buffet, we should expect voters to "stuff themselves" with moral rectitude. Once again, analogies between voting and shopping are deeply misleading.

Irrationality in politics is not a puzzle. It is precisely what an economic theory of irrationality predicts.

Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God's holiness or compel his pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer him nothing for what he alone can give. Then we rest in his promise to forgive those who humbly seek him.

While we can will a change in behavior, we do not by an act of will change….

Dios nos transforma de adentro hacia afuera, dándonos corazones dispuestos y capaces de vivir para Él. Él no nos ama por lo que hacemos. Hacemos lo que Él ama porque amamos a Aquel que nos ama a pesar de nuestro comportamiento. Ya que nunca nos dejará, ni siquiera cuando le fallemos, nunca desearemos fallarle (Ro 5:10; Heb 13:5).

Our identity determines what we do; what we do does not determine our identity.

Because I am united to Christ, God's love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me more because I do better. He will not love me less because I stumble. His love is based not on my behavior but on my union with his Son – a union built on trust in his grace, not my goodness.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

When you're twenty-two and you pass out at a friend's house, it's totally normal. When you do it at forty-two, you're never invited back.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, and what good will they do you if you do not act upon them