Behavior Quotes · Page 42

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“What is the inner behavior of people whose most visible feature is that when you take them to a party they aren't…

— Susan Cain

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

— Jane Goodall

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift…

— Warren Buffett

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

— Dan John

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

— Martin O'Malley

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

— Robert Greene

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

— Lew Wallace

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the…

— Barry McCaffrey

For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women…

— Eva Longoria

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this…

— Sissy Spacek

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior…

— William Shakespeare

Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Tsze-Kung asked, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is…

— Confucius

“Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort…

— John R. Dallas Jr

...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the…

— Peter Singer

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people…

— James Toback

I think that we see some cities that have developed living wage ordinances. I think that we see some efforts to actually…

— Martha Minow

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are…

— Judith Martin

Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and…

— Barbara Fredrickson

What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this…

— Edward Snowden

“Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But…

— Leora Tanenbaum

Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently,…

— Chris Fussell

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

— Jose Ferreira

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the…

— Anonymous

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

— Mary McCarthy

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and…

— Andy Dunn

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

“Sometimes, it is not about the skillset or talent alone but behavior and attitude is part of the ladder moing to the…

— Bel

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from…

— Gichin Funakoshi

Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do…

— Doctor Anil Sinha

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

— Orson Scott Card

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people]…

— Tim Robbins

“Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.”

— Travis Polso

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

— Richard King

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice…

— Max Anders

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

The more we dwell on the negative, the more negative energy we create. And the smaller we behave, the smaller our world…

— Kris Carr