Quotes about Behavior
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
— Aldous Huxley
Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.
— Aldous Huxley
And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.
— Aldous Huxley
It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.
— Aldous Huxley
If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.
— Aldous Huxley
To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.
— Aldous Huxley
Christlike in my behavior Like any good believer I imitate the Savior And cultivate a beaver
— Aldous Huxley
Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.
— Aldous Huxley
That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
— Aldous Huxley
He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.
— Aldous Huxley
The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.
— Donald Whitney
A good example is far better than a good precept.
— DL Moody