Behavior Quotes

"Model the behavior in your everyday life in a way that always reflects how you would like to be treated."
Byron Pulsifer, from You Will Never Be Sorry

"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."
Stephen Covey

“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night to day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Shakespeare

"Don't think that by reading a book, and changing some of your behaviors, that tomorrow will bring you recognition, or a promotion."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Why Are Some People More Successful Than Others?

"There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule."
Samuel Butler

"When you change your behavior, you change your performance." Author Unknown, from By Changing Your Thinking

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
George W. Crane

"Anytime you attempt to change a longstanding behavior, you may initially see a worsening of the behavior being targeted."
Jacquie McTaggart

"The thought is not the act."
Joan Ebbitt

“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
Nadia Boulanger

“I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice?
“Margo, don’t be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.”
Margo Kaufman

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."
Aristotle

“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”
Dr. Rob Gilbert

"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."
Fran Tarkenton

"We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought."
Marsha Sinetar

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
Rene Descartes

"Feel the feeling. Choose the behavior."
Charles Rumberg

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.”
Marsha Sinetar

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“She didn’t know it couldn’t be done, so she went ahead and did it.”
Bridget O’Donnell

“It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
Lin Yutang