Quotes about Behavior

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Excellence is not an act, but habit.

We cannot be prudent without being good.

Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

I think Mr. Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet. He's been behaving very queerly, and he is very much excited." "I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness." "Some folks might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.