Quotes about Behavior
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
- William Howard Taft
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
- Gordon Hinckley
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- Alexander Hamilton
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Spurgeon
Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.
- Frank Turek
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
- Ezra Taft Benson
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
- Aristotle
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
- Publilius Syrus
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
- Henry Cloud