Behavior Quotes · Page 55

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

— Albert Ellis

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

— John Irving

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a…

— B. F. Skinner

“the general idea that objects should manage themselves; they should contain their own behavior.”

— Anonymous

“Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.”

— Steve Maraboli

The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior.

— Jay Baer

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

— Charles Duhigg

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an…

— Marvin Bower

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected…

— Bashar al-Assad

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior…

— Susan Jeffers

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of…

— Viola Spolin

For years I kept a sign in my room that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said... 'Yesterday…

— Pacifiersucker

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the…

— Shoshin Nagamine

“Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories…

— Steven Pinker

To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates…

— Stanley Milgram

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all…

— Ron Paul

Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than…

— Thomas Sowell

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to…

— William James

The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just…

— James Howard Kunstler

The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.

— Hillary Clinton

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

— Nicolas Chamfort

People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, its not always…

— Anonymous

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and…

— B. F. Skinner

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not…

— Mariana Mazzucato

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

— Alan Rudolph

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

— Marc Morial

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

— Ralph Nader

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

— Mark Steyn

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

— Brian Tracy

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

— Anonymous