Quotes about Behavior
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought
— James Allen
Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.
— James Allen
selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.
— James Allen
energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness:
— James Allen
How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood!
— James Allen
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn
— James Allen
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
— E Stanley Jones
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
— Albert Bandura
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
— Cicero
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson