quotations about behavior
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When we end up creating wrong models of the world based on incorrect laws of human behavior, the world doesn't change its laws to accommodate our ignorance.
AWDHESH SINGH
The laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Behave yoursel' before folk;
Whate'er ye do, when out o' view,
Be cautious aye before folk.
ALEXANDER RODGER
Unweighed behavior.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Behavior seemeth to me as a garment of the mind, and to have the conditions of a garment. For it ought to be made in fashion; it ought not to be too curious; it ought to be shaped so as to set forth any good making of the mind, and hide any deformity; and above all, it ought not to be too straight, or restrained for exercise or motion.
FRANCIS BACON
I despise my own behavior
This only serves to confirm my suspicions
That I'm still a man in need of a Savior
DC TALK
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Nothing is more adroit than irreproachable conduct.
MADAME DE MAINTENON
The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.
ANTHONY KIEDIS
There is a fair behavior in thee.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I need a little time off for bad behavior
The devil in me done been asleep too long
DAVID ALLEN COE
Remember, it takes courage, vulnerability, and humility to admit what you don't know and experiment with new behaviors.
MIKAELA KINER
What a man does, not what he feels, thinks, or believes, is the universal yardstick of behavior.
BENJAMIN C. LEEMING
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
O.R. MELLING
Put himself upon his good behavior.
LORD BYRON
Polite behavior with her silken sleeve rounds off and polishes the snow-white cubes of truth, so that, when they have got a little dingy by use, it becomes hard to tell them from the rolling balls of falsehood.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
What a man does, not what he feels, thinks, or believes, is the universal yardstick of behavior.
BENJAMIN C. LEEMING
It's the devil's work, the Lord can't save ya
We got it bad, that freaky behavior
THE 2 LIVE CREW
Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortune and blemishes; the man of true genius will be ashamed of them; and at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities.
SIR W. TEMPLE
Boy you about to come, oh, see
On my worst behavior
And I can return the favor
KERI HILSON
A lot of people get credit for being well-behaved simply because they haven't the money to be otherwise.
EVAN ESAR
Would to God we had behaved ourselves well in this world, even for one day.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma.
TED CHIANG
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
PAULO COELHO
However much we feel the need to justify our inexplicable behavior, the fact remains that once we have decided to live, once we have decided to enjoy life, none of these disturbing, distressing, crippling factors is of the least importance.
HENRY MILLER
Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
WARREN BUFFETT
A man's behavior on dry land differs from his behavior in water; he acts differently indoors and out, in summer and in winter. A man's behavior is always a function of his environment; that is one of the things we mean by behavior.
RALPH BARTON PERRY
The behavior of a single child is often the means of making or marring the happiness of a whole family.
MRS. G. WHITTLESEY
The sum of behavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
FRANCIS BACON
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
FRANCIS BACON
Human behavior is predictable, but, as in physical science, accurate prediction hinges on the correctness of underlying theoretical assumptions.
DOUGLAS MCGREGOR
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
LEW WALLACE
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
PLAUTUS
Man can influence his life through his own conduct, and that in this process conscious thinking and wanting can play a part. ... those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
