Quotes about Behavior
How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood!
- James Allen
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn
- James Allen
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
- E Stanley Jones
Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.
- Mathew Knowles
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
- Albert Bandura
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
- Cicero
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Samuel Johnson
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
- Thomas a Kempis
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
- Washington Irving
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
- Confucius