Behavior Quotes

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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. — Maxwell Maltz
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. — Thomas Mann
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you… — Demetri Martin
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their… — Abraham Maslow
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding… — Abraham Maslow
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. — Bryant H. McGill
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. — George McGovern
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. — Marshall McLuhan
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. — Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely… — Margaret Mead
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. — George Meredith
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. — Joyce Meyer
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things. — Joyce Meyer
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it. — Joyce Meyer
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting… — Joyce Meyer
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects… — Moby
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moliere
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at… — Michel de Montaigne
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. — Beth Moore
I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an… — Viggo Mortensen

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