Quotes about Behavior

19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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

I believe young people need rules. They will respond to discipline.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

Why is it that so many Christians make such lousy human beings?

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing."6

It has been said that the real measure of our sense of self is when we are with our parents for more than three days. At that point we need to ask ourselves how old we feel. Have we gone back to our patterns of behaving more in line with our childhood, or have we broken free from our past to live in what God has for us now?

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.