Top 370 Behaviors Quotes & Sayings

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

I think the Democratic Party is firmly in the wilderness right now and doesn't know exactly what to do. We talk about trust. Fundamentally, the American people have lost a lot of trust in both parties, but in particular, my party. Growing trust is a very simple calculation: People want to know what your values are, and they watch your behaviors. If your behaviors align with your values, then they trust you. If you say I'm for the people, but we're just as bought off as the other party, or we say we're for fairness, but we gerrymander just like the other side, people see.

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

People are not their behaviors.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs. Chief among these is the belief in separation, which has arisen out of our ancient Separation Theologies. This is a way of looking at God that insists that we are "over here" and God is "over there."

Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.

Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of those behaviors will be mainstream behaviors tomorrow.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

Belief creates behaviors.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift.

Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Behaviors and feelings rarely line up

When someone is complimenting you, they are sharing how your actions or behaviors impacted them. They are not asking if you agree.