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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. -- Emily Dickinson
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. -- Plato
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. -- Maxwell Maltz
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. -- Moliere
Behavior shapes beliefs. -- A. J. Jacobs
Behavior shapes emotions. -- A. J. Jacobs
Contraries are cured by contraries. -- Bill Vaughan
Behavior is determined by its consequences. -- B. F. Skinner
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. -- Clay Shirky
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I always say centered food equals centered behavior. -- Marilu Henner
Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences -- B. F. Skinner
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied. -- Bill Vaughan
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. -- Ambrose Bierce
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. -- Bill Gates
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. -- Dalai Lama
Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. -- Wayne Dyer
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going. -- Julia Stiles
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. -- Charles Stanley
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. -- Maxwell Maltz
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. -- Ian Tattersall
Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is. -- Carly Fiorina
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior. -- Alan Rudolph
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is. -- Frederic Dan Huntington
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies. -- Winston Churchill
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. -- Thomas Mann
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. -- Emily Dickinson
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. -- Randall Terry
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. -- Shoshana Zuboff
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. -- Otto von Bismarck
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. -- R. D. Laing
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. -- Warren Buffett
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. -- Bill Cosby
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. -- Abraham Maslow
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. -- Ayn Rand
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? -- Buddha
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. -- Martha Graham
Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh. -- Will Ferrell
I can be a real brat sometimes! -- Emma Bunton
The insolence of wealth will creep out -- Samuel Johnson
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements -- Earl Warren
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel. -- Lou Ferrigno
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add -- Fran Lebowitz
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? -- Julian Casablancas
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. -- Marshall McLuhan
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship -- Herbert Spencer
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. -- Richard King
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me. -- Ellie Goulding
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception. -- Christopher Golden
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. -- Philip Zimbardo
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone. -- B. F. Skinner
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. -- Johnny Depp
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. -- Charles Stanley
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. -- Dave Ramsey
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? -- Dennis Prager
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. -- Michel de Montaigne
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. -- Stephen Hawking
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' -- Demetri Martin
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the sa -- T. S. Eliot
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. -- Germaine Greer
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- Marianne Williamson
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. -- B. F. Skinner
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Belief forms behavior. -- David Klinghoffer
Human behavior is timeless. -- Barbara Tuchman
My behavior is humiliating. -- Danny Bonaduce
Judge character by behavior. -- Lizelle DuPlessis
Bad beliefs make bad behavior. -- Warren Akin Candler
Human action is purposeful behavior. -- Ludwig von Mises
3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior. -- John McCain
Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior. -- Warren Buffett
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior. -- Louis Leakey
The government is promoting bad behavior. -- Rick Santelli
Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. -- Debra Winger
Reward the behavior you want repeated. -- Larry Winget
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. -- Philip Zimbardo
It was not just inappropriate behavior -- Bob Kerrey
Habits are the shorthand of behavior. -- Julie Henderson
Good behavior wins even an enemy. -- Chanakya
Your behavior reflects your actual purposes. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match. -- Nathaniel Branden
I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. -- Laurie Anderson
You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. -- Linus Torvalds
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. -- Paul Theroux
Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs. -- Robin Sharma
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. -- Ted Nugent
Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior. -- Star Jones
Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior -- Elizabeth Chandler
Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior. -- Luci Swindoll
Love is a context, not a behavior. -- Marilyn Ferguson
you can't use logic on human behavior. -- Jeff Lindsay
Boldness is behavior born out of belief. -- Craig Groeschel
Information does not change behavior. Practices do. -- Richard Leider
Religion is behavior and not mere belief. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior. -- Rudolf Dreikurs
I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior. -- Michael Zaslow
The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills. -- Gerald Chertavian
Public behavior is merely private character writ large. -- Stephen Covey
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. -- George A. Sheehan
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior. -- Julianna Margulies
All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't. -- Mary Pipher
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior. -- Boyd K. Packer
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits. -- Roger Mudd
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Your behavior is the testimony of your character. -- Saru Singhal
Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior... -- Jerry Vlasak
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior. -- Jane Goodall
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. -- Denis Waitley
I am a victim of my own behavior. -- Henry R Brandt
Spry is not a look, spry is behavior. -- Robert Culp
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological -- Arthur C. Clarke
Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior. -- David Brooks

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