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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mirrors, Display

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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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  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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• 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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• Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Belief, Evolve

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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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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Deeds

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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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• There's no map to human behaviour.

  Bjork

  Maps, Humans, Human Behaviour

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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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• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  Barry Levinson

  Mistake, Interesting, Looks

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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