quotations about behavior
If you ever get close to a human
And human behavior
Be ready, be ready to get confused
BJÖRK
"Human Behavior"
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
WARREN BUFFETT
Motivating Thoughts of Warren Buffett
A lot of people get credit for being well-behaved simply because they haven't the money to be otherwise.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
PLAUTUS
Epidicus
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
"In the Light"
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
Stories of Your Life and Others
BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Human behavior is predictable, but, as in physical science, accurate prediction hinges on the correctness of underlying theoretical assumptions.
DOUGLAS MCGREGOR
The Human Side of Enterprise
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
Monthly Review, May 1949
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
"Is There a Social Mind?"
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
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's the devil's work, the Lord can't save ya
We got it bad, that freaky behavior
THE 2 LIVE CREW
"Freaky Behavior"
Would to God we had behaved ourselves well in this world, even for one day.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
De Imitatione Christi
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
PAULO COELHO
The Devil and Miss Prym
The behavior of a single child is often the means of making or marring the happiness of a whole family.
MRS. G. WHITTLESEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
LEW WALLACE
Ben Hur
What a man does, not what he feels, thinks, or believes, is the universal yardstick of behavior.
BENJAMIN C. LEEMING
Imagination
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
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Boy you about to come, oh, see
On my worst behavior
And I can return the favor
KERI HILSON
"Return the Favor"