Behavior Quotes

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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are. — Louise Penny
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of… — Scott Turow
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by… — J D Salinger
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin — Bill Watterson
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? — Henry David Thoreau
We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war… — Brandon Mull
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs… — Michael Crichton
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be… — Sidney Poitier
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… — Ian Fleming
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to… — Tom Robbins
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it… — Hugh Prather
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're… — Sarah Dessen
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.… — James E. Faust
True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior. — Ezra Taft Benson
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them. — Jane Austen

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