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Quotes About Behavior

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.
~ John Henrik Clarke
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~ Beatrix Potter
Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
~ Shirley Manson
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
~ Charles Duhigg
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
~ Charlie Munger
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
~ Lawrence Kushner
Living in a big city can be compared to existing in a jungle. One becomes a creature of the environment. The response to the rhythms and choreography is visceral and before long a dweller's conduct is as distinctive as those of a jungle inhabitant.
~ Will Eisner
There was so much life wrapped up in that pony's hide that it was mighty hard for him to settle down and behave...he sometimes had to bust out and do things that wasn't at all proper...
~ Will James
Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
~ Will Rogers
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
~ Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
~ Will Rogers
Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
~ Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
~ Will Rogers
And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.
~ Will Schwalbe
But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.
~ Will Schwalbe
when you are running away from something, it often ends up coming with you, especially if the thing you are running away from is your own behavior.
~ Will Schwalbe
stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the
~ Will Schwalbe
Researchers into bird communication have revealed the astonishing fact that not only do ravens listen to the gossip of neighbouring flocks, but they pay especially close attention when it tells of a reversal in another bird's status.
~ Will Storr
the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:
~ Will Storr
ready-made theories of control that are internalised by their followers, instructing them how to behave in order to achieve connection and status.
~ Will Storr
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
~ Willard Gaylin
The talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a moneychanger and the manners of an undertaker.
~ William Allen White