
Top 76 Behavior Will Change Quotes
#1. As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
Tony Robbins
#2. The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
Boyd K. Packer
#3. People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
Howard Rheingold
#4. What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
Tony Robbins
#5. The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
Timothy Keller
#6. You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn't behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...
Daniel Pinchbeck
#8. I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
Adam McKay
#9. And Pudgy," she called after him, causing him to hesitate at the door, "Sometimes the best way to change someone else's behavior is to change your own.
Anonymous
#10. There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don't change the world!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.
Donald L. Hicks
#12. To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.
Dale Carnegie
#13. I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!
Daphne Oz
#14. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.
Toni Sorenson
#16. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.
Jillian Michaels
#17. An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.
Harold Klemp
#18. Training alone is rarely the answer to ensuring successful behavior change in the work environment.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#19. When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
Bill Crawford
#20. For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.
Chip Heath
#21. Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
Emily Oster
#22. If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior ... you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.
Malcolm Gladwell
#23. And as long as you're making choices unconsciously, you can't consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.
Darren Hardy
#24. Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you're not happy with these results, something has to change. NOTHING MUCH IN YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, UNTIL YOU DO!
Jack Canfield
#25. Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change our behavior around water, water will become as valuable as oil. That is a given. When people don't understand that, I'm surprised.
Alysia Reiner
#26. I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.
Chris Hadfield
#27. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#28. Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.
Jon Katzenbach
#29. A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."
Charlie Munger
#30. We need each other more then some people think, their behavior is like a shadow from themselves in a dream, they will realize this when one day wake up, together strong, United unbeatable.
Jan Jansen
#31. Don't just ask questions. Know how the answers to the questions will change your behavior. In other words, draw a line in the sand before you run the survey.
Alistair Croll
#32. For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!
Jamie Eason
#33. Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.
Gregory A. Boyd
#34. When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
Gary Hopkins
#35. We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.
Michael J. Jackson
#36. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change.
John Izzo
#37. Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.
Michael C. Feathers
#38. It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.
Ben Witherington III
#39. You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.
Buck Brannaman
#40. Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.
Chip Heath
#41. And only when we choose to believe that we live in a world where challenges can be overcome, our behavior matters, and change is possible can we summon all our drive, energy, and emotional
Shawn Achor
#42. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#43. Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level - and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
John P. Kotter
#44. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.
Ellis Paul Torrance
#45. To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
#46. Women are no more important than any other potential victims, but we are the primary targets of the messages and myths that sustain rape culture. We're the ones asked to change our behavior, limit our movements, and take full responsibility for the prevention of sexual violence in society.
Kate Harding
#47. neuroscience confirms that storytelling has unique power to change opinions and behavior.
Wallace J. Nichols
#48. Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#49. Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change
Gino Norris
#50. Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
Thomas Friedman
#51. The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.
Ellen Goodman
#52. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.
William Julius Wilson
#53. People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Sharon Stone
#54. How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
Timothy Keller
#55. Information does not change behavior. Practices do.
Richard Leider
#56. Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
Ken Blanchard
#58. Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose
#59. People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
Jestoni Revealed
#60. Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior - we can only change our own.
Jennifer Lopez
#61. We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
Howard Schultz
#62. Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.
Amy Cuddy
#63. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. The Iranians know what they need to do in order to become a responsible member of the international community and in order to become a good neighbor, and it's really up to them to change their behavior.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#65. True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
Ezra Taft Benson
#66. When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
Simon Mainwaring
#67. The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
Jeanette Winterson
#68. people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.
Chris Argyris
#69. To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.
Marshall Goldsmith
#70. For days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by
William Peter Blatty
#71. I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#72. Before you start yelling at someone for their behavior, see why they are acting that way. Change the game and everyone can win.
Presh Talwalkar
#73. At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called "leaders" is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.
Kerry Patterson
#74. A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.
Buck Brannaman
#75. It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.
Mikko Hypponen
#76. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
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