Behavior Quotes
2056 quotes by 1425 authors
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I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants…
— Temple Grandin
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The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to…
— Matt Chandler
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Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU…
— Bill Watterson
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When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which…
— Brené Brown
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
— Khaled Hosseini
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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their…
— Arundhati Roy
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When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.
— Sherry Argov
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Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach…
— Eoin Colfer
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You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush…
— Anne Lamott
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The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other…
— Susan Cain
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a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
— Orson Scott Card
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People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
— Marisha Pessl
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Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior,…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
— Daniel Kahneman
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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
— Harry Allen Overstreet
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And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior:…
— Stedman Graham
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
— Lou Holtz
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I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people…
— Matt Damon
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As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become.…
— John C. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Behavior Quotes
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