Top 1200 Moral Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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

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

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

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

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

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

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

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

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

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.

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

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

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

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.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

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

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

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

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

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

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

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

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

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

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want more and more, but then what restrains them and what restrained them in the past was a view of life in which one's satisfaction wasn't the most important thing, that you just, you needed enough and you could say, "Enough is enough." Maybe religion will get you there, maybe just classic moral philosophy, but you have to have some of that, or else you're always on the gravy train.

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

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

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

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

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

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care. They do agree they have a moral right, in critical cases, to have anything done to save their life, but they don't believe that anyone has a right not to fall that sick to begin with. So if you ask me, "Are we ever succumbing to some notions of solidarity as a nation?," I would say, "Not at all." I would describe us as a group of people who share a geography. That's a better description of Americans than that we're a real nation with a sense of solidarity.

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

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

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

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

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

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

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.