Quotes about Behavior

Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things.

But we can't enable bad behavior in ourselves and others and call it love. We can't tolerate destructive patterns and call it love. And we can't pride ourselves on being loyal and longsuffering in our relationships when it's really perpetuating violations of what God says love is.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

Remember all the work you've done to draw boundaries was not about controlling someone else's behavior. It's about paying attention ad being hones about how someone's poor behavior and lack of responsibility is possibly controlling you. And when people close to us are acting out of control, that's when we run the greater risk of lacking self-control. When a relationship shifts from being difficult to being destructive, it's the right time to consider a goodbye.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.

In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.

Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied.

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.