Quotes About Behaving

#1. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C.S. Lewis

#2. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#3. Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

Seymour Krim

#4. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. The only way Father is going to be upset in this case, is with the way the two of you are behaving toward one another. We are family, whether you believe it or not. Your lack of faith in Lucifer is what will do the damage in the long run. It has nothing at all to do with the time I spend with him.

Melyssa Winchester

#6. I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

Kevin Costner

#7. Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

Billy Graham

#8. A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.

David Mitchell

#9. We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

James Packer

#10. Don't behave like a cat who is patiently waiting for the right time to attack its prey! For you, right time is now, suitable moment is now; use 'now' because any moment after 'now' is just a theory, it may never exist! Stop being patient, stop behaving like a fixed statue and move now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I shall never 'go and marry' anyone," observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself,

Louisa May Alcott

#12. behaving like Europeans. Or if they are studying and encounter an obstacle, like needing money or failing an assignment, they often give up. When I was studying, I saw white people

Catherine Titasey

#13. Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

Mick Rock

#14. Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.

Iyanla Vanzant

#15. The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

Steven Weber

#16. Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better
believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

Tullian Tchividjian

#17. You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Keegan-Michael Key

#18. The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

Judith Martin

#19. Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Mike Rowe

#20. Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

Vladimir Lenin

#21. I don't have kids. I'll probably never have kids. And I am getting sick of people behaving as though the only way a woman can be judged is by what comes out of her vagina.

Debbie Johnson

#22. I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

Fritz Leiber

#23. All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Dorothy Parker

#24. We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds.

Carlos Wallace

#25. She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving ... But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

Margaret Atwood

#26. Then act like men. Stop behaving like dogs crawling on their bellies to lick the boots of a cruel master.

Stephen King

#27. On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

Jed Rubenfeld

#28. So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

Mignon McLaughlin

#29. One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

Thomas Lickona

#30. The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Gloria Steinem

#31. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter

#32. We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.

O.R. Melling

#33. When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

Mac DeMarco

#34. Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

Amelie Nothomb

#35. It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

Sinead O'Connor

#36. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

Kristin Cashore

#37. Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Ron Wood

#38. I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia

#39. The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.

Gene Doucette

#40. People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

Kurt Vonnegut

#41. Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

Adam McKay

#42. One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths.

Sam Harris

#43. To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Debbie Ford

#44. If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Brian Tracy

#45. Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Rory Stewart

#46. When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Simone De Beauvoir

#47. The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.

Anatol Lieven

#48. Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas Szasz

#49. Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Rajneesh

#50. Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way ... like people in a Buddhist monastery ... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

John Muir

#51. It was odd. As a girl, Sophie would have shriveled with embarrassment at the way she was behaving. As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.

Diana Wynne Jones

#52. A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley

#53. I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.

Norah Jones

#54. You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

Daniel Finkelstein

#55. 717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

Laline Paull

#56. At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Jillian Michaels

#57. Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Sanford Meisner

#58. Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that they start making revenge by behaving bad to dogs, like "Hey, I'm the boss". But nobody stand up and do something about that!

Deyth Banger

#59. Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.
Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.
Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Oscar Wilde

#60. If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Pat Buchanan

#61. It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

Jacob Bronowski

#62. If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place.

Sally Brampton

#63. Being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.

Siddhartha Choudhary

#64. By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her.

Sheryl Sandberg

#65. I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

Steven Gerrard

#66. except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.

Edward O. Wilson

#67. People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

John Taylor Gatto

#68. Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...

Eric Clapton

#69. My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

Michael Rapaport

#70. The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

Nicholas G. Carr

#71. We ourselves are behaving in the Church as if we are afraid of the light, it should not be so.

Sunday Adelaja

#72. I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

Gael Garcia Bernal

#73. Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Richard Wiseman

#74. I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

Harper Lee

#75. When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jesse Eisenberg

#76. You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

#77. By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

Stephen Covey

#78. When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

Adam Rapp

#79. If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Theophrastus

#80. There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

Vince Cable

#81. Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

Clarice Lispector

#82. For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

Martin Clunes

#83. Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#84. Kanner had cause and effect backward. The child wasn't behaving in a psychically isolated or physically destructive manner because the parents were emotionally distant. Instead, the

Temple Grandin

#85. Autonomous motivation involves behaving with a full sense of volition and choice," they write, "whereas controlled motivation involves behaving with the experience of pressure and demand toward specific outcomes that comes from forces perceived to be external to the self.

Daniel H. Pink

#86. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

D.E. Stevenson

#87. The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Roy Hattersley

#88. There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.

Pat Toomey

#89. I didn't know whether this Mr. Smyth was behaving like white people, or if it just showed something vile about all people.

Sue Monk Kidd

#90. Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#91. She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

Sherry Turkle

#92. He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Hunter S. Thompson

#93. When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

William Feather

#94. Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

David McCullough

#95. Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Deborah Harkness

#96. Our nights were filled with passion and long soft gazes and sweet words. We weren't behaving ourselves, and we didn't for one moment feel guilty about that.

J.H. Trumble

#97. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#98. In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

Dan Ariely

#99. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

#100. We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis