Behavioral Choices Quotes

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.