Quotes about Behavior

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Temperance is love in training.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.

One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves: whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

But there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification" which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.