Quotes About Behavior

A refusal to countenance racially based differences in behavior is a manifestation of human decency. A refusal to countenance culturally based differences in behavior would be a manifestation of blinkered denial of the obvious.

You want to look in the mirror and stop the behaviour you don't want your kid to emulate.

The never-angered person is morally deficient.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?

Behavioral scientists are not likely to agree, because such a performance can't be repeated with the true scientific method, under laboratory conditions. But the laboratory is a very limited place to learn anything but rudimentary facts about life and living.

A lot of what people call nice behavior is really fear, cowardice, and even sin in disguise. Many women are nice not because they truly care about other people, but because they fear conflict and rejection. That's not peacemaking. That's peace-faking, and their God-given consciences have been telling them this truth for a long time.

Repeatedly seeking wise counsel is a good thing; repeatedly seeking stamps of approval is a sad thing. Why do [women] go from person to person asking, "Do you think I should do this?" Answer: Because they want other people's approval and/or their permission. This is little-girl behavior, and it makes women look uncertain, weak, and incompetent at work.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

I am very good at playing monkey games with my morality.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.

You and I don't always live what we say we believe. There is often a disconnect between our confessional theology and our street-level functional theology. There is often a separation between, on the one hand, the doctrines we say we have embraced and, on the other hand, the choices we make and the anxieties that we feel.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

Sin is not just a matter of bad behavior. It is a condition of the heart. That's why you cannot free yourself from it.

Parenting is about the condition that makes good behavior seem such a hard and elusive goal.

Change what you do, not how you think. You are what you do, your happiness is what you attend to, and you should attend to what makes you and those whom you care about happy.

By using priming, defaults, commitments, and norms in your own life, you can become a whole lot happier without actually having to think very hard at all about becoming happier. You will be happier by design.

It is well established that you will feel uncomfortable when there is a discrepancy between what you think and what you do. This is known as cognitive dissonance.