Top 1200 Moral Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

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

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

The bread and butter of any internet service is user behavior.

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

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

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

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

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

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

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

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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

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

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

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

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.

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

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

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

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

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.

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

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.