BEHAVIOUR
1. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ~Moliere
2. Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. ~Margaret J. Wheatley
3. All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ~Vernon Howard
4. Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. ~George A. Sheehan
5. As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. ~John Maxwell
6. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ~Benjamin Franklin
7. Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. ~Emily Dickinson
9. Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. ~James Bryant Conant
10. Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. ~Randall Terry
11. But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ~Abraham Maslow
12. Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution. ~Marvin Bower
13. Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. ~Saskya Pandita
14. Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. ~Marshall McLuhan
15. Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. ~Reinhold Niebuhr
16. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~George Santayana
17. Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ~Henry S. Haskins
18. Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ~Elizabeth Janeway
19. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ~Plato
20. Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ~Herbert Simon
21. I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. ~David Icke
22. I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid. ~P. J. O'Rourke
23. I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ~Barbara Deming
24. It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. ~Rollo May
25. Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. ~ J.E. Hedges
26. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
27. Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard
28. No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ~Friederich Nietzsche
29. Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. ~Deepak Chopra
30. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. ~Karl Marx
31. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ~Chuck Colson