Behavior Quotes

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. (Warren Buffett)
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
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. View quote
Herbert Simon
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. View quote
Lauren Bacall
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information. View quote
Robert Aumann
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Margaret Mead)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. View quote
Emily Dickinson
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. View quote
Frida Kahlo
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. View quote
Molière
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. View quote
Franz Boas
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. View quote
Robert Ludlum
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. View quote
Bill Cosby
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. (Joan D. Vinge)
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. View quote
George Stigler
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean. View quote
Sylvia Earle
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. View quote
Germaine Greer
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. View quote
Freda Adler