Quotes About Behavior

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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer.

But we can note that, however the debates turn out with regard to any given claim concerning animal behavior, it is clear that facile attempts to maintain that all human beings are exclusively in possession of some particular trait or set of traits that nonhuman animals lack (language, self- consciousness, tool use, awareness of death, or some other capacity) are becoming ever less tenable.

Actions seem to follow feelings, howbeit, they go together like Siamese twins. By regulating the actions, which are ordinarily under more direct control of your will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling that is not.

It is only when the pain of perpetuating old behavior patterns is perceived to be greater than the pain brought about by trying to change those patterns that we are able to effect and sustain significant psychological and behavioral modifications.

such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

The power of men's laws may bind a man to good behavior, but it is only the power of God's grace that will renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10). It is this that

Drunkenness is bad in any, but it is especially scandalous and pernicious in ministers, who of all men ought to have the clearest heads and the cleanest hearts.

our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

feelings are one of the most inconsistent aspects of the human person.

Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits create character.

Because the actions of your life are determined by your most dominant thought.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

you have the right to feel however you like, but not the right to act however you want.

As for Barbara Fredrickson, she defines love as a positive resonance that manifests when three events occur simultaneously: the sharing of one or several positive emotions, a synchrony between the behavior and physiological reactions of two people, and the intention to contribute to the other's well-being, an intention that engenders mutual care.

Selon une opinion qui a longtemps prévalu parmi les psychologues, les gens qui ont une mauvaise opinion d'eux-mêmes seraient enclins à recourir à la violence pour compenser leur sentiment d'infériorité et montrer aux autres ce dont ils sont capables.

Studies of twins have shown that psychopathy may be a trait more heritable than environmental, yet good children can thrive despite bad parents, and vice versa.

As socially insecure people tend to do, he responds by apologizing.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners .

Meadow didn't know whether to be amused or disgusted by the woman's shameless opportunism.