Quotes about Behavior
A first impulse was never a crime.
- Pierre Corneille
Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.
- David Jeremiah
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
- Philip Yancey
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
- Max Lucado
Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max
- Max Lucado
We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.
- Max Lucado
Belief always precedes behavior.
- Max Lucado
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.
- Maya Angelou
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
- Melody Beattie
Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves.
- Melody Beattie
When a codependent discontinued his or her relationship with a troubled person, the codependent frequently sought another troubled person and repeated the codependent behaviors with that new person. These behaviors, or coping mechanisms, seemed to prevail throughout the codependent's life—if that person didn't change these behaviors.
- Melody Beattie
Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.
- Melody Beattie