Top 1200 Ethical Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the sublimity of a revolution then things are very different and the Kantian ethic is shown to be limited in its value.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.