Behavior Quotes

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

~ Ross W. Greene

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

Doesn't matter if you speak either truth or a lie. People are too stubborn to listen only an expected/ pre-concluded/ conjectured answers from you, without having any second thought about the impetus and certitude of the person who speaks. Finally, a cessation that you are no more the same person which you were earlier.

~ David Barik

Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

~ Steve Goodier

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

~ Confucius

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

~ Julien Smith

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about.

~ Steve Maraboli

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

~ Steve Maraboli

Dogs own space and cats own time.

~ Nicola Griffith

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.

~ Jael Mchenry

For the first time I was beginning to discern a God whom I actually wanted to live for. I was beginning to discover the motivation of Paul when he proclaimed, “Christ’s love compels us” (2 Cor. 5: 14). All my life I’d tried to be good to avoid hell, or the ugly-stick flogging, or my stepmother’s beatings with a two-by-four. But while most people would undoubtedly be better at behaving well with these frightful motivations than I ever was, no one could ever be transformed by these sorts of motivations. Threatening motivations address behavior, but they can never transform our identity. They motivate people to change as a means of protecting themselves, but for this reason they can never move us beyond ourselves to become someone fundamentally different from who we currently are. And threatening motivations can certainly never transform us into people with an other-oriented, self-sacrificial, loving character. Only a motivation that is anchored in love can do this.

~ Gregory A. Boyd

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

~ Taylor Nadeau

I can’t control your behavior; nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

~ Gabor Maté

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

~ Donna Barr

...the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems...If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine,then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.

~ Buckman

Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.

~ Patty Houser

You can choose to believe whatever you wish, just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

~ Hyrum W. Smith

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

~ Bonnie Marcus

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

~ Ryan Lilly

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

~ Paul Colaianni

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

~ Toba Beta

The quickest way to change a child's behavior and attitude is to get him involved in fixing his mistake. The best way to inspire a child to do better in the future is to give him an opportunity to do better in the present. A punishment makes him feel bad about himself. Making amends helps him feel good about himself, and helps him to see himself as a person who can do good.

~ Joanna Faber

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

~ Joanna Faber

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

~ Matt Ridley

We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

My behavior last night was poor.Poor? Agatha coughed. You pushed me through a window!

~ Soman Chainani

I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.

~ Brian L. Weiss

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

~ Tasneem Hameed

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

~ David Eagleman

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

~ C.s. Lewis

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

~ Henna Inam

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

~ Philip G. Zimbardo

Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.

~ Steve Maraboli

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

~ Cesare Pavese

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

~ Steven Magee

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

~ Heraclitus

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

~ Jillian Michaels