Quotes about Behavior

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.

How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is good for them. And yet that's just what you won't let them do when you get angry at their misbehavior. They're drawn toward what they think is good for them. —But it's not good for them. Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing your temper.

When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)