Top 1200 Positive Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need it often. Every runner has bad days, every runner has occasional injuries, and every runner eventually slows down (take it from someone who has slowed down a lot). But as long as you maintain a positive attitude, you'll find ways to overcome the obstacles and continue running. After all, running offers countless rewards. It's simply up to you to find the ones that have the most meaning for you.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

You don't want to show anything, any behavior giveaways that your competition might see, right?

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

I'm so positive.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.