Behavior Quotes

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”
― Christian Baloga

“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends...!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.”
― Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love

“Pay attention to what you pray for. Your prayers are not just a reflection of your desires and hopes; they are a guide for personal behavior. PRAY it, BE it, and you will SEE it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!”
― Raheel Farooq

“You’re being nicer to me than I've been to you lately," I said.
"Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately.”
― Molly Ringle, What Scotland Taught Me

“People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

“Judge character by behavior.”
― Lizelle Du Plessis, Ethereal Revelations Volume I

“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Our ability to have patience, and our attitude toward others, define who we are at any given time.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.”
― Alison Golden, The Modern No-Nonsense Guide to Paleo: Develop Your Skills to Lose Weight, Gain Energy and Take Back Your Health

“Let me explain before another word is written: I have never once asked a cat, "So tell me what's up, Charlie?" and Charlie says, "Jeez Jackson, thanks for asking. A little annoyed by the fluorescent lights, and will you please check out this tiny piece-of-junk pan I have to crap in but, hey, I still got my legs, you know? Can't complain, pal.”
― Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean

“What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."

Anonymous”
― Mike Addington, The Home Place

“God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.”
― Taylor Nadeau, The Death of Edwin Hubble

“As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.”
― Hayley DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do for Love and How to Avoid Them

“We are what we adapt to.”
― carter stroud, Natural Selection's Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, The Religion of Money, and The Origin of Evil

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”
― Valerie Tarico

“The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.”
― Lara Santoro, The Boy

“Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors?”
― Sasha Issenberg, The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

“Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.”
― Ross W. Greene, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior are confined to us: there exists no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The unmistakable truth is that man is the most vicious and cruel species that ever walked the earth.”
― Hans Askenasy, Are we all Nazis?

“You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.”
― Travis Polso

“A child's behavior we see on the surface is the reflection of the feelings that are rooted underneath. We can use topical treatments to try to shape what the behavior looks like, but if we really want things to change, we need to address the roots. Nourish the roots, see the growth.”
― Kelly Bartlett