Quotes about Behavior

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.