Quotes about Behavior

Engel's biopsychosocial model proposed that psychological and social factors could either protect a person from illness or increase his or her susceptibility to it. Such factors include a person's beliefs and attitudes, how supported and loved a person feels by family and friends, the psychological and environmental stresses to which one is exposed, and personal health behaviors.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.