Behaviour Quotes

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Empathy, Criminal Mind

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• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Abnormal, Novelists

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• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Deeds

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• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

  Laura Dern

  Courageous, Humans, Human Behaviour

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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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• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Learning

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

  George A. Sheehan

  Good Life, Values

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Indifference, Behavior

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• Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Giving, Personality, Psychology

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• A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

  Shirley Manson

  Fear, Fancy Cars, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  James Payn

  Humble, Opportunity, Oatmeal

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

  Marvin Harris

  Sex, People, Different

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• And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

  Emma Thompson

  Change, Communication, Thinking

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• I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

  Janet Suzman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

  Keith Henson

  Years, Long, People

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• The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  God, Children, Real

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• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Past, Perspective, Evil

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  Wendy O. Williams

  Hate, People, Bored

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Attention, Intense

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