Behavior Quotes

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John W. Holt, Jr.

The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry S. Haskins

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface
James Bryant Conant

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing

If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated.
Brenda Hammond

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
Robert Greene

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
Samuel P. Ginder

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
Francesca M. Cancian

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat.
Raymond Moley

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own behavior.

To say the you behaved like animals is offensive to the animal creation because animals of the farmyard and field have an innate sense of decency.
Justice Cusack

The best way to behave is to misbehave.







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