Behaviour Quotes

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mirrors, Display

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Heart, Men, Natural

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Belief, Evolve

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Deeds

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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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• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Cost, Civility, Manners

  Letter to her daughter Mary, Countess of Bute, 30 May 1756, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' vol. 3 (1967) p. 107

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Indifference, Behavior

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

  Laura Dern

  Courageous, Humans, Human Behaviour

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• There's no map to human behaviour.

  Bjork

  Maps, 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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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• Praise behaviour that you want repeated

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Nba, Want

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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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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fake

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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