Behaviour Quotes
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Our concern has rapidly mounted about the broadcast behaviour of individuals within the Big Brother house. (Quote by - Charles Dunstone)
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
I find American behaviour...odd (Quote by - Kate Beckinsale)
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. (Quote by - Frank McKinney)
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. (Quote by - Richard D. Rosen)
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. (Quote by - C. E. Coghill)
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. (Quote by - Earl Warren )
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. (Quote by - Bernard Edmonds)
He was ridiculous and grotesque. His behaviour is offensive and against the rules. He is a clown (Quote by - Marc Lievremont)
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Contraries are cured by contraries. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence (Quote by - Salma Hayek)
My past behaviour makes me cringe. (Quote by - Denise Van Outen)
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour? (Quote by - Kristin Davis)
Bush led cabinet meetings like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people Paul O'Neill is the former Secretary of the Treasury and was quoted in an interview. (Quote by - Paul O'neill)
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
The sack is always open to an employer - if employee behaviour has gone on that is gross misconduct. (Quote by - Gordon Taylor)
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the places that you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. (Quote by - John Wesley)
Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weed. (Quote by - Marilyn Vos Savant)
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. (Quote by - Larry Andersen)
Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were the entire world looking at you, and act accordingly. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down. (Quote by - Chester Brown)
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. (Quote by - Angelina Jolie)
No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them. (Quote by - Chris Morris)
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: One is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Quote by - Booker Taliaferro Washington)
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. (Quote by - Seneca)
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings. (Quote by - Jane Goodall)
As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. (Quote by - Kamal Ahmed)
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
Temperament is the natural, inborn style of behavior of each individual It''s the how of behavior, not the why (Quote by - Stanley Turecki)
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. (Quote by - B. F. Skinner)
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things. (Quote by - Robert Bellarmine)
Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me. (Quote by - Barry Levinson)
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. (Quote by - Joe Eszterhas)
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. (Quote by - Ben Stein)
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose (Quote by - George Meredith)
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. (Quote by - Joel Osteen)
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. (Quote by - Joe Ancis)
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again. (Quote by - A. E. Houseman)
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. (Quote by - Fran Tarkenton)
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on the way down. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. (Quote by - George W. Crane)
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. (Quote by - Leo F. Buscaglia)
Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Suit the behavior to the occasion. (Quote by - Colombian Proverb)
Still people are dangerous. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. (Quote by - Frances Burney)
We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Jerkery knows no financial pedigree. (Quote by - Neil Cavuto)
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart. (Quote by - Janet Suzman)
The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one. (Quote by - Chester Brown)
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again. It's just a repeated thought, like a habit is a repeated piece of behavior. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view. (Quote by - Gavin MacLeod)
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. (Quote by - Evan Dando)
If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. on her reputation for bad behavior. (Quote by - Shannen Doherty)
He means well' is useless unless he does well. (Quote by - Plautus)
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
There's no map to human behaviour. (Quote by - Bjork)
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. (Quote by - Doug Horton)
To say the you behaved like animals is offensive to the animal creation because animals of the farmyard and field have an innate sense of decency. (Quote by - Justice Cusack)
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Quote by - Henry S. Haskins)
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. (Quote by - Simon Conway Morris)
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behaviour. (Quote by - Boethius)
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. (Quote by - Brenda Hammond)
What others remember about our behavior is often edited. What we remember about ourselves and others is similarly self-edited. (Quote by - Mitch Thrower)
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)
Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects. (Quote by - Peter Garrett)
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
The best way to behave is to misbehave. (Quote by - Mae West)
Without proper nutrition it is going to lead to more and more problems with behaviour and how people act and think in the future so we need to improve things now. (Quote by - Billy Higgins)
The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. (Quote by - Back Street Boys)
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden on it to anyone else. (Quote by - Charles)
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. (Quote by - Thom Mayne)
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
I would like to apologise for errors of judgement in personal behaviour and for the embarrassment caused, firstly to my family but also to my friends, my constituents and my party. (Quote by - Mark Oaten)
As she hears the confessions of all rivers those on the shore hear the sea.. accepting all she calls no thing heresy. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit. (Quote by - Robert Greene)
I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be. (Quote by - Nigella Lawson)
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour. (Quote by - Xander Berkeley)
Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
None are fools always, though everyone sometimes. (Quote by - Thomas D'Urfey)
You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. (Quote by - Sara Paretsky)
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. (Quote by - Shirley Manson)
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. (Quote by - Keith Henson)
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
When he is playing people who are less well-educated... he seems to have an intrinsic understanding of their behaviour. (Quote by - Bruce Beresford)
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. (Quote by - James Allen)
Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today. (Quote by - St. Francis)
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. (Quote by - Benzel Sternan)
But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. (Quote by - Shmuley Boteach)
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behaviour, we are complete ignoramuses We have psychology instead (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour. (Quote by - John G. D. Clark)
The world is good-natured to people who are good natured. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. (Quote by - Moliere)
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. (Quote by - Helen Garner)
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. (Quote by - Lord Robbins)
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. (Quote by - Samuel P. Ginder)
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men. (Quote by - Stephen Lewis)
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. (Quote by - Francesca M. Cancian)
We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. (Quote by - Voltaire)
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. (Quote by - Barry Levinson)
A smile is the shortest distance between two people. (Quote by - Victor Borge)
A market is the combined behaviour of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. (Quote by - Kenneth Chang)
Taking me from behind is something that is not worthy behaviour of a man. (Quote by - Nicolas Burdisso)
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat. (Quote by - Raymond Moley)
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. (Quote by - James Payn)
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are. (Quote by - Janet Suzman)
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. (Quote by - Cameron Kirk)
You do not have enough data to assign value to any action in the book Starseed Transmissions. (Quote by - Ken Carey)
Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus. (Quote by - Apuleius)
Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? (Quote by - Leonard Cohen)
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. (Quote by - John W. Holt, Jr)
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. (Quote by - Jane Goodall)
I am free of all prejudice; I hate everyone equally. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. (Quote by - Helen Garner)
We are totally against all forms of racism and bullying and indeed this behaviour is entirely at odds with the brand values of The Carphone Warehouse. (Quote by - Charles Dunstone)
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. (Quote by - Keith Henson)
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! (Quote by - Wendy O. Williams)
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own behavior. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. (Quote by - Laura Dern)
Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonourable behaviour. (Quote by - Bruce Friedman)
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. (Quote by - Erastus Wiman)
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. (Quote by - Margaret Chan)
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. (Quote by - Lew Wallace)
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. (Quote by - Gro Harlem Brundtland)
Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you? (Quote by - Alan Gorrie)
