Behavior Quotes

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

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• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Change, Decision, Cybernetics

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• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

  E. F. Schumacher

  Hate, People, Complacency

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  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Empathy, Behaviour

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• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

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• 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

  Wise, Patience, Wisdom

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jealousy, Often Is, People

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Change, Attitude, Want

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• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Action, Management

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• Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

  Wilson Mizner

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, is said to have remarked, "You don't have to be nice to people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again."

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• Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

  Emily Dickinson

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

  James Bryant Conant

  Irritated, Surface, Below The Surface

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• People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

  Thomas Mann

  Inspirational, Education, Thinking

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• A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

  Michael Zaslow

  Play, Unmotivated, Want

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• 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

  Hype, Gentleman, Trying

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• Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

  Alex Haley

  Unique Characteristics, Racism, Racist

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• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Time, Powerful, Past

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• We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Attitude, Humility

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.21, Mango Media Inc.

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• Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Way, Conscious

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.23, Routledge

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• It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Communication, Views

  Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch (2011). “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Music Is, Degrade

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  Tim Robbins

  Real, Heart, People

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