Quotes about Behavior

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Discipline. All is for naught if the organization, specifically leadership, doesn't enforce the values. It may be a subtle reminder, a rebuke, even a warning that includes clear consequences if behavior is not changed.

The Bible reminds us that a little leaven leavens the whole loaf of bread. If one insists on maintaining a competitive spirit in the face of the above behaviors, it may be a strong indicator of a lack of value alignment. Such individuals may need to find an organization that is more in tune with their approach to organizational life.

Our behavior may be the most critical factor used by others in their decision to "lend" trust to us, as our actions reflect our character. When we honor our commitments and do what we say we will do, others will be inclined to deposit their trust with us.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there...

We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too.

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

There is an obvious Great Disparity between, on the one hand, the hope for life expressed in Jesus—found real in the Bible and in many shining examples from among his followers—and, on the other hand, the actual day-to-day behavior, inner life, and social presence of most of those who now profess adherence to him.

True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.

Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action.

The intention points the way, and then habituated thought and desire must be redirected to support the intention in the moments of action.