Quotes About Behavior

As a kid I can remember my mother telling me that our lives are merely a reflection of what we see and do. If we are kind, others will treat us with kindness. If we love, we will be loved. If we care, we will be cared for.

Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed.

Last but not least, you can notice and compliment someone else's behavior. This is the best way to converse with kids. Instead of noticing when they do something wrong, try celebrating positive behavior. It'll go a long way toward furthering communication with them and deepening your bond.

If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.

There is a rule I live by: People begin as they mean to continue.

she lambasted him for driving so poorly.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order. The Buddhist trains us to accept our fate even when it brings us blood and chaos.

You know the drill—your child cruises over to the coffee table and throws the remote control at the dog. But before he does it, he turns his head and looks over at you with a devilish grin on his face. That's because you've already told him, ten times, this is not okay.

Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.

Another key finding is that in non-distressed families, the spouses do not reciprocate each others' negative behavior—only positive behavior. The same is true for parents and kids. You don't have to reciprocate your child's negative words and actions by doing likewise yourself. By not reacting, but leading, you will raise the positives in your home. You build an environment of grace.[72]

People who know the difference between right and wrong do the wrong thing all the time. You know why? Because they can.

One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the sociopath.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

Suffering is no guarantee of empathy and the decent behavior it engenders. When people emerge from pain and oppression, they have two options: they can use their anger over their suffering to legitimize their oppression of others; or they can use the memory of their pain to empathize with others. Suffering ennobles only those who want to be ennobled by it.

While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.

Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.

While a pure mind may be a saintly ideal, for the rest of us mortals controlling our behavior is an enormous enough achievement.

The women who repeatedly fall for creepy men, ignore good men who are attracted to them, and then blame men for their social woes

The Torah and Judaism are behaviorist in their approach to life. How we behave is ultimately more important than how we think or feel. This is one of the greatest differences between the Torah and the contemporary mind, which attaches far more importance to how people feel.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

If people with anger issues were offered a million dollars to significantly reduce the number of times they expressed excessive anger over a six-month period, most would become adept at controlling their temper. But in the absence of million-dollar incentives, people destroy marriages, family relationships, and friendships—things worth far more than a million dollars.