Quotes about Behavior

A first impulse was never a crime.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

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.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max

We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.

Belief always precedes behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.