Quotes About Behavior

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

To respond is positive, to react is negative.

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.