Quotes about Behavior
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
— Confucius
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
— Ezra Taft Benson
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
— Ludwig Borne
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
— Aristotle
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
— Tertullian
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
— Publilius Syrus
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
— Henry Cloud
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
— Epictetus
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
— Mark Twain
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle