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

  Emily Dickinson

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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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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• Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mirrors, Display

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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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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Use

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Belief, Evolve

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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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• All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Roots, Great Writers

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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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• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

  Isaac Newton

  Positive, Wisdom, Art

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• There's no map to human behaviour.

  Bjork

  Maps, Humans, Human Behaviour

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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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• 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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• 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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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Indifference, Behavior

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• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Deeds

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

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Abnormal, Novelists

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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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• I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

  Bill Bryson

  Long, Social, Continuum

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• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  Evan Davis

  Cheat, Accepted, Norm

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• I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Love, Change, Sex

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

  Evan Dando

  Journey, Ugly, Awful

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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