Top 1200 Moral Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I wouldn't support a guy who's got Donald Trump's behavior.

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on the processes that have low side effects and good long-term outcomes. Right now you're going to find those in the psychosocial area, in the therapy area, in the empirically supported treatments such as ACT or cognitive behavior therapy, behavior therapy. And go there first rather than going to the pill bottle as if it's going to be the end of your journey. Very often it's only going to help, and even only to a minor degree, and more is going to be needed.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Repeating a new behavior is what makes change stick.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories in a communist society: honest men and bad men. The "honest" ones resist compromising or collaborating with the regime, while the "bad" are the persecutors and collaborators. You can choose to be on one side or the other, but there is nothing in between. In a normal society, other factors can define who you are. You can be a good worker, sociable, tough, generous, tolerant, collaborative, friendly.

Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.