Quotes About Behavior

While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These objects of attachment then become preoccupations and obsessions; they come to rule our lives. The

responsibility means respecting ourselves and those around us. In the nature of systems, all our addictive behaviors affect other people.

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

Of course it was still odd, but when everyone does the same odd thing, it seems almost normal.

It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship

Con frecuencia los padres no se dan cuenta del impacto que tiene sobre sus hijos lo que dicen o hacen. Años más tarde, los adultos recuerdan de manera vívida el efecto que tuvo sobre ellos algún aspecto de la conducta de sus padres. De hecho, es posible que estén haciendo algunas de las mismas cosas con sus propios hijos sin que logren percatarse de ello.

Cuando los miembros adultos de la familia riñen frente a los niños y se faltan al respeto entre sí, se ve amenazada la sensación de seguridad del menor.

Los padres tienden a prestar mayor atención a sus hijos cuando tienen un mal comportamiento que cuando hacen las cosas de manera correcta. En general, los niños están mucho más sujetos a las críticas que a los elogios y esto quizá tenga un efecto negativo sobre su autoimagen y seguridad propia. Los niños necesitan más reforzamiento positivo.

La fuerza de la familia emana de los padres y sus convicciones. Si no existe una filosofía, estrategia o enfoque coherente a la crianza infantil, y si los valores no son claros, la conducta de los padres suele ser inconsistente y confusa.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Well, they say trauma etches the neurons, and I was traumatized by my appalling behavior." Typical, Theo thought. He'd been accused, yet she was traumatized.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.