Quotes about Behaviors

Sophocles

Silence is the greatest ornament of the woman.

The "wisdom" of the Ancient Greek world included ideas detramental to society like these. The sexist view that women--like children--should not express their opinions and remain silent had its roots in the Ancient world where this "principle" was elucidated.

Stephen Covey

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Jacque Fresco

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Naveen Andrews

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

Stephen Covey

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Charles Edwards

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Seth Godin

Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

John Stuart Mill

It is what men think that determines how they act

Later American politicians expounded the same view. See Otis Singletary {585931} and Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259}. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}

Stephen Covey

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Julien Baker

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

Gerald Chertavian

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.

Charles Duhigg

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Behaviors Quotes