Quotes about Behavior

Framing your solution negatively, such as "Don't shout at me," tends to focus the other's attention even more on the unwanted behavior and may unconsciously reinforce it, particularly if you are shouting back at them. It is more effective to say, quietly, "Please talk to me in a quiet tone." Focus the other's mind clearly on the positive action you want them to take.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.

Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.