Quotes about Behavior
But there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification" which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.
- Eugene Peterson
Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.
- Eugene Peterson
But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.
- Eugene Peterson
But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.
- Eugene Peterson
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
- Gordon Hinckley
When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?
- Stephen Malkmus
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
- JC Ryle
By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
- Stephen Covey
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
- Rick Warren
I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.
- Usain Bolt
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
- CS Lewis
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
- Marcus Aurelius