Quotes About Behavior

Most politicians are pigs...It's a funny thing about pigs...They have an odd way of keeping warm in winter if they find themselves outside. You see, pigs don't know if they're cold, provided their nose is warm. So they stand around in a circle with their nose between the hind legs of the pig in front of them. Would you call that a curious relationship?...I would call that a Satanic relationship.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others' effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.

As?l önemli olan baz? insanlar?n benim hakk?mda kötü ÅŸeyler söylemeleri deÄŸil, benim iyi ÅŸeyler yapmam.

In any living organism, an exaggerated or excessive reaction indicates fear and insecurity.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.

only a habit can subdue another habit. So

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

You teach people how to treat you.

Your past is not an excuse. But it is an explanation - offering insight into the questions so many of us ask ourselves: Why do I behave the way I behave? Why do I feel the way I do? For me, there is no doubt that our strengths, vulnerabilities, and unique responses are an expression of what happened to us.

If you have gratitude, you don't have room for fear. And that was one of the biggest things—that fear holds us back so much. Fear is what causes so much of our bad behavior and our poor choices. And gratitude can't live with fear in the same way that love can't live with fear. So if you're grateful, you move to that place of love. And trust is soul, right? Trust is God.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

in the twenty-first century, with the era of traditional empires and colonies long since behind us, the word "nationalist" has become a label almost always employed to lend prestige to the behavior of people who tend to agree with everything their government says, have no other aim but to curry favor with those in power, and lack the courage to stand up to authority.

Information doesn't change behavior," quips Lisa. "If it did, none of us would smoke and we'd all floss.

Habit works powerfully for or against us. It is a good servant, but a tyrannical master. If

We cannot long keep from the face that which habitually lives in our minds.

a dog as mad which simply has a fit, or is so frightened at being pursued by those who are afraid of it, and who project their state of mind to its brain, that it appears to be mad.

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.